flushleft (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 8.12 `flushleft`

Synopsis:

    \begin{flushleft}
      line1 \\
      line2 \\
      ...
    \end{flushleft}

An environment that creates a paragraph whose lines are flush to the left-hand margin, and ragged right. If you have lines that are too long then LaTeX will linebreak them in a way that avoids hyphenation and stretching or shrinking spaces. To force a new line use a double backslash, `\\`. For the declaration form see \raggedright.

This creates a box of text that is at most 3 inches wide, with the text flush left and ragged right.

    \noindent\begin{minipage}{3in}
    \begin{flushleft}
      A long sentence that will be broken by \LaTeX{}
        at a convenient spot. \\
      And, a fresh line forced by the double backslash.
    \end{flushleft}
    \end{minipage}

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