Multiline table cells virtually impossible

[jrosiek]

For of all I want to say your template is really great. TeX was a good choice - I don't have to worry about splitting the text into pages/columns myself. which is a problem for CSS-based templates.

I was trying to typeset some tables that have multiline cells (common occurence in PHB for example). Unfortunatelly, I was unable to do that reliably in the current implementation that relies on tablex. Either multiline does not work, is misaligned or the formatting (row background color) is broken. My attempts involved \newline within cell (after defining some custom columns) as well as makecell library.

Do you think it would be possible to migrate to https://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/tabularray/tabularray.pdf, which seems to support such things out of the box? I'm not versatile enough in TeX to refactor your code myself.

[PJBrs]

I cobbled up an alternative based on super tabular, to allow multipage tables. But it does not support the X column format.
https://github.com/canismarko/dungeon-sheets/blob/71387ba463577a0386db2fbfd38d3906a50fe150/dungeonsheets/forms/preamble.tex#L37

[BrianCriswell]

Hi @jrosiek, please drop an MWE in here that demonstrates the issue. Checking just now, I had no issues with using \newline within an X column.