From eb17a1379949331910f07e38cb65c712c3d7f925 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: maartenvanheek <maartenvanheek@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:43:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] change tabular specifiers on title pages

With @{} removing indentation, the flushelfts are no longer needed. With the p{\textwidth} specifier, text is formatted in paragraph and manual line breaks within a long line (e.g. graduate school declaration) are no longer neccessary.
---
 000_Title.tex | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/000_Title.tex b/000_Title.tex
index 303616f..8d3c87a 100644
--- a/000_Title.tex
+++ b/000_Title.tex
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
 \newpage
 \thispagestyle{empty}
 \vspace*{\fill}
-\begin{tabular}{l}
+% @{} removes indentation completely from the first tabular column
+% p{\textwidth} formats the tabular environment as a paragraph, at the same width as regular text
+\begin{tabular}{@{}p{\textwidth}}
     \textbf{Thesis committee}                                                                 \\  
                                                                                               \\  
     \textbf{Promotor:}                                                                        \\  
@@ -33,9 +35,8 @@
     Prof.dr Jury member 3, Affiliation                                                        \\  
     Prof.dr Jury member 4, Affiliation                                                        \\  
                                                                                               \\  
-
-    \small{This research was conducted under the auspices of the C.T. de Wit Graduate School} \\  
-    \small{of Production Ecology \& Resource Conservation (PE$\&$RC)}                         \\  
+    \small{This research was conducted under the auspices of the C.T. de Wit Graduate School
+    of Production Ecology \& Resource Conservation (PE$\&$RC)}                                  
 \end{tabular}
 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
@@ -64,8 +65,7 @@
 \newpage
 \thispagestyle{empty}
 \vspace*{\fill}
-\begin{flushleft}
-\begin{tabular}{l}
+\begin{tabular}{@{}p{\textwidth}}
     John Doe                                                 \\  
     Title of your thesis                                     \\  
     170 pages.                                               \\  
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@
                                                              \\  
     ISBN XXX-YYY                                             \\  
 \end{tabular}
-\end{flushleft}
 %\newpage
 %\thispagestyle{empty}
 %\begin{flushright}

From 1effadea3c4bbc27d07e1a8b6a9f748f756dfe5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: maartenvanheek <maartenvanheek@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:50:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add flushleft

You do need flushleft to remove base indentation from tabular.
---
 000_Title.tex | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/000_Title.tex b/000_Title.tex
index 8d3c87a..cd75786 100644
--- a/000_Title.tex
+++ b/000_Title.tex
@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@
 \newpage
 \thispagestyle{empty}
 \vspace*{\fill}
-% @{} removes indentation completely from the first tabular column
+% \flushleft removes indentation from tabular
+% @{} removes column spacing in front of the first tabular column
 % p{\textwidth} formats the tabular environment as a paragraph, at the same width as regular text
+\begin{flushleft}
 \begin{tabular}{@{}p{\textwidth}}
     \textbf{Thesis committee}                                                                 \\  
                                                                                               \\  
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@
     \small{This research was conducted under the auspices of the C.T. de Wit Graduate School
     of Production Ecology \& Resource Conservation (PE$\&$RC)}                                  
 \end{tabular}
+\end{flushleft}
 
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 \newpage
@@ -65,6 +68,7 @@
 \newpage
 \thispagestyle{empty}
 \vspace*{\fill}
+\begin{flushleft}
 \begin{tabular}{@{}p{\textwidth}}
     John Doe                                                 \\  
     Title of your thesis                                     \\  
@@ -75,6 +79,7 @@
                                                              \\  
     ISBN XXX-YYY                                             \\  
 \end{tabular}
+\end{flushleft}
 %\newpage
 %\thispagestyle{empty}
 %\begin{flushright}