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Automatic long word breaking in whole document
In my document some of long words are not automatically broken at the end of the line. Is there a way to fix that?
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How to typeset Tibetan in XeLatex with correct linebreaks?
I am trying to typeset Tibetan language in a document, but the text does not wrap at the margin. I think this could be easily fixed if I tell XeLaTeX to recognise the Tibetan tsheg character ('TIBETAN ...
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How can I really force the hyphenation points of a word?
I try to make XeLaTeX hyphenate the German word "Sicherheitsbeauftragter". I tried several values for x in \tolerance=x and instances of \hyphenation{Si-cher-heits-be-auf-trag-ter}. Nothing worked. ...
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1answer
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Force hyphen line-break one words with dieresis [duplicate]
Normally Latex adds a hyphen if the word at the end of a line is too long, and continues the rest of the word on the next line. I'm writing my document in Dutch and when the last word on a line ...
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smarter hyphenation for narrow columns?
I know how to turn off hyphenation via \nohyphens{.....} (from hyphenat). But what I'd really like would be to hyphenate smartly. What I mean by this should hopefully be made clear by the following ...
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Justify long line with no spaces but a lot of hyphens
% !TEX TS-program = xelatex
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\documentclass[11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{showframe}
%%% Book Layout %%%
\setstocksize{4in}{5.75in}
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7
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\RaggedRight makes document longer
I have a document carefully written to fit in 4 pages; but when I added a \raggedright (or \RaggedRight with use of the ragged2e package) the length gets longer. Furthermore, suddenly the output ...
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How to force LaTeX not to break the line after a hyphen “-”?
With ~ we can enforce that no line break occures between two words.
But this does not seem to work with special characters. I want LaTeX to enforce not to break the line after the - in (re-)creation.
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8
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Hyphenation does not work with acro and luatex, but with pdftex
I'm using luatex 0.70.1 together with acro 1.2 and I have the following MWE.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{acro}
\DeclareAcronym{DNA}{
short=DNA,
...
3
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1answer
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How to wrap text in line by adding spaces
I am writing one text which has some very long words but i don't need to split word in multiline using hyphen. I just want to add spaces to fit in the line as shown below.
This is my first ...
4
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Insert hyphenation point in BibTeX using PDFLaTeX and hyperref
How to tell PDFLaTeX to make hyphenation in place where I want it to be?
I have my document file:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\PassOptionsToPackage{hyphens}{url}\usepackage{hyperref}
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7
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How to get XeLaTeX do proper hyphenation and full justification?
I want to use XeLaTeX to design a paperback (11x19cm) using Adobe's Garamond and Myriad as custom fonts. It is entirely written in German.
However, both hyphenation and full justification are a mess: ...
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Automatically prevent line-break at hyphen of specific words (e.g. “dual-self”)
Usually questions about hyphenation and line-breaks are concerned about how to allow hyphenation when a word already contains a hyphen. That's not what I'm after:
I would like to prevent the word ...
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Problem with Table of Contents chapter line breaking [closed]
I am working with the book document class. Concerning the table of contents, is there any way to break the chapter title as you like? For example, instead of e.g.
How to effectively feed swiss ...
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Overfull hbox with British English
I write in British English and occasionally I get an overfull hbox warning because LaTeX does not know how to break a word correctly in its British form. For example, the word 'analysing' causes an ...
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How can I make an em-dash to allow for a linebreak on either side?
How can I make an em-dash allow a linebreak on either side?
Optionally, how do I preserve the hyphenation points of the word on both sides?
The following code allows for refrigerator---refrigerator ...
3
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1answer
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Automatic hyphenation in verbatim text, with guidance
I would like to typeset verbatim text that can have linebreaks on certain text points. I know that spverbatim and listings can break at spaces, but sometimes this is not enough. Of course, no ...
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Glossaries package and hyphenated (dashed) acronym fail to break across lines
With respect to using the glossaries package, if I have an acronym with a long hyphenated word, it often result in sentences that runs into margins. For example:
...
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How to get my teletype (\tt) text to wrap to the next line, rather than run off the edge of the PDF? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
\texttt overfull hbox problem
How to automatically hyphenate within \texttt?
Much of the LaTeX documents I write deal with computer-sciencey stuff that I like to put ...
3
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1answer
195 views
Latex hyphenation exception
I have some problems with my document. I have one sentence with indentation. It is too long and it takes minimum two lines. And I have something like this:
Macierz rozproszenia idealnego, ...
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Incompatibility between \nobreakdash and babel
I use the \nobreakdash command to disallow a linebreak after the dash in short expressions like -s, -ar etc. I use ({\nobreakdash}-s, {\nobreakdash}-ar) but it seems not work as can be seen on the ...
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Text Alignment problem [closed]
I am having a problem with the alignment in my pdf. The pdf is compiled with Xelatex. Some words instead of being separated with a "-" and continue at the bottom line are written whole in the upper ...
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1answer
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How to break long URLs using common hyphenation but adding a line feed indicator?
I saw several questions like this one that request a solution for breaking apart URLs.
I wonder if it is possible to hyphenate the words in a URL as it happens in normal text (i.e., breaking apart ...
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Preventing line break at the start of a long name in `\lstinline`
This question has developed from How to deal with very long lstinline-phrases like long class names?.
That question is about line breaking inside a \lstinline phrase. I have provided an answer which ...
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How to deal with very long lstinline-phrases like long class names?
According to this Question:
listing: How to deal with very long lines that do not contain spaces?
My problem is that my \lstinline-phrases does not contain any special character like "-". In my ...
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1answer
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Automatic break/hyphen for too long meaningless words
Since there is no pattern for hyphening meaningless words, they should be individually hyphenated/broken with methods such as \hyphenation{longword}, \seqsplit{longword}, etc.
However, there should ...
3
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1answer
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correct the hyphenation
How to correct the hyphenation in my paper that is entirely wrong? For example, in my paper, there are wrong hyphenations like result-s, s-mall, s-pace, etc. How can I fix this problem. I don't use ...
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No hyphen for a word
I want to put pdflatex to not put a hyphen in a word went it comes to the end of the line.
I tried to put a \- in the beginning or the end of that word but it doesn't work.
For example if I put:This ...
6
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1answer
175 views
Automatic camel case breaking
Based on my old question Push long words in a new line, I search for a possibility to allow linebreak before a capital character in camel case terms.
For example the term ...
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3answers
290 views
Automatic linebreak on specific character
Based on my old question Push long words in a new line, I search for a possibility to allow linebreak on specific character.
For example in my case I want to break on "_" (underscore).
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Text created with a \newcommand overflows into margin (not xspace question)
I am aware of the use of xspace to handle the space after a macro in different situations. However, it seems that I cannot avoid having my text created with a \newcommand from running into the ...
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1answer
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Hyphenation on next-to-last line
On the next-to-last line of a paragraph, I have some hyphenation and on the last line, I only have the end of the word.
blablabla cou-
cou.
New paragraph
I thought the command \finalhyphendemerits ...
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how to enforce correct hyphenation of “(near-)uniform” as “(near-)” + “uniform” instead of “(near-” + “)uniform”?
how to enforce correct hyphenation of (near-)uniform as (near-) uniform instead of (near- )uniform?
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How to break long word containing symbols but with no hyphen?
Below is my minimum working example:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,draft]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
...
2
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1answer
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When I prevent hyphenation using an \mbox, the box gets pushed into the right margin
I've used \mbox to prevent LaTeX from breaking certain long words into hyphenated pairs. Now I have a new problem: the unbroken words are extending into the right margin. Here's some minimal sample ...
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Linebreak between numbers connected by dash
In my text I am using lots of dates. Now I have the following problem: 1480–1541 (two figures and between them a dash) appears at the end of one line and extends over the line into the margin space ...
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Avoid hyphenation in chapter title
I wonder if there is a way to avoid hyphenation of words in the title of a chapter.
I have tried \mbox but that makes the word run over the margin. I've also tried inserting a \\ in front of the ...
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3answers
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Allowing breaks at a location with no spaces or hyphens
I have two letters: A and B. In most situations, I'd like them to appear together with no space, e.g. ("AB"), however, if TeX feels it needs a linebreak or to split these across two pages, this is ...
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Why do hyphenated words cause margin violations (and how can I prevent it)?
Sometimes my text goes past the right margin when there is a hyphenated word involved in the sentence. For example, in the figure below, the line that contains "inter-member" extends further right ...
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Is it possible to have hyphenations in \underlined{text}?
In a document I was writing, I had some really long captions and I wanted to emphasize the important parts in them. I tried to use \underline{} but no hyphenation was used at both the caption and at ...
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Section titles, hyphenation, manual line breaks - and how to avoid them
I have several section titles in my document that are getting hyphenated, which is quite ugly.
I am now looking for some way to avoid the hyphenation, which is is somewhat related to this question, ...
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1answer
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Is it still worthwhile to let TeX try line-breaking without hyphenation?
Here's TeX's line-breaking approach (as I understand it) in a nutshell:
If \pretolerance is positive, try to break a paragraph into lines without inserting discretionary hyphens and without ...
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7answers
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LaTeX not hyphenating properly, text running off page
I'm having a problem with LaTeX not hyphenating $\beta$-galactosidase, and the word as a result running off the page.
I have narrowed down the problem to a particular package, as a bare minumum LaTeX ...
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Allow line break, but without inserting a dash
I have a sentence that contains a number of long dataset names. I would like to allow LaTeX to break these names at certain positions that I would like to specify somehow just like I can use \- to ...
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Hyphenating hyphens: how to change the default \discretionary
My language, Portuguese, have undergone another orthography reform (those committees simply can't avoid themselves from doing this mess from time to time.) Now we have to adapt, which brings us to my ...
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Unwanted line breaks in middle of words [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to prevent LaTeX from hyphenating the entire document?
I have a two-column article with custom margins. In some points of the text, line breaks occur in the middle ...
6
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1answer
501 views
Emergency stretch hook
Is there a way to automatically set parameters when emergency stretch is required?
Here is my situation. After I implemented the solution chosen for unbreakable spaces in Bible verse references, I ...
6
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2answers
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Fixing an overfull box
I have an overfull box in a French text which looks like this:
The sequence at the end of the line is:
d'Ananias~: \og Vous
"Vous" cannot be hyphenated and \og inserts a non-secable space, so ...
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1answer
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Unwanted line-breaking of hyphenated word in bibliography
In .bib file:
@article{Kurahashi_Yokota2004,
author = "Kurahashi, M. and Yokota, A.",
title = "Agarivorans albus gen. nov., sp. nov., a $\gamma$-proteobacterium isolated from marine animals",
journal ...
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ragged2e: “newcommands” option produces “underfull \hbox” warnings
The ragged2e package provides the commands \Centering, \RaggedRight and \RaggedLeft for setting ragged text while allowing hyphenation. The package offers a newcommands option that sets the standard ...
