diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yaml b/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
index 6b3ad6634..7101615f7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ jobs:
     secrets:
       REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
     with:
-      sd-direction: upstream
+      deps-installation-method: setup-r-dependencies
+      lookup-refs: |
+        insightsengineering/formatters
       default-landing-page: latest-tag
       additional-unit-test-report-directories: unit-test-report-non-cran
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c1fe9aa5f..bab8590da 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ URL: https://github.com/insightsengineering/rtables,
     https://insightsengineering.github.io/rtables/
 BugReports: https://github.com/insightsengineering/rtables/issues
 Depends:
-    formatters (>= 0.5.9),
+    formatters (>= 0.5.9.9004),
     magrittr (>= 1.5),
     methods,
     R (>= 2.10)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-printing.R b/tests/testthat/test-printing.R
index 20490f1b5..74b4ca3b5 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-printing.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-printing.R
@@ -656,17 +656,25 @@ test_that("row label indentation is kept even if there are newline characters",
 
 test_that("Support for newline characters in all the parts", {
   out <- strsplit(toString(tt_for_nl, hsep = "-"), "\\n")[[1]]
+  mf <- matrix_form(tt_for_nl, TRUE)
+
+  # topleft is correctly aligned
+  expect_equal(
+    mf$strings[seq(mf_nlheader(mf)), 1],
+    unlist(strsplit(paste0(top_left(tt_for_nl), collapse = "\n"), "\n"))
+  )
+
   expected <- c(
     "why not",
     "also here",
     "",
     "---------------------------------",
     "                                 ",
-    "                         ARM     ",
-    "                                 ",
-    "a                         A      ",
-    "b                            A wo",
-    "d                     TWO        ",
+    "a                        ARM     ",
+    "b                                ",
+    "d                         A      ",
+    "                             A wo",
+    "                      TWO        ",
     "c                    words    rd ",
     "---------------------------------",
     "m                                ",