{line-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks paragraphs into lines and how those breaks can be influenced.
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plain tex: break \line and \vbox through pages
I'm trying to break the following command
%\hsize=380 true pt
\line{%
1
\hfil\vtop{\hsize 365 truept{%
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod ...
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Is there a way to avoid short lines?
Is there a universal setting to tell TeX that the last line of a paragraph can not have just one word? For instance, instead of this:
This is a sample paragraph and there is one word
here.
you ...
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votes
1answer
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break line within mathescape in listing
How do I solve the evergreen problem of breaking a long equation into multiple lines but this time within the lstlisting[mathescape] environment. Attached is the minimum working example.
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2answers
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Why no vertical-mode Knuth-Plass?
I have only basic knowledge of the TeX internals, so I hope what I am saying here is not complete nonsense. If I understand correctly, in TeX, horizontal positioning / line breaking is done using a ...
2
votes
1answer
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Underfull hbox in tabular
I'm trying to make a table with fixed column widths. Cells in the first column will generally not have enough text to require a line break within the cell. The second column's cells will quite often ...
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2answers
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Format a verbatim paragraph
How can I format a verbatim paragraph? I.e. break, fill and join input lines to produce globally balanced output with the lengths of each line approaching the target \textwidth as closely as possible. ...
2
votes
1answer
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Linebreak before \texttt
I have text and there are some commands, that should be write in \texttt. It's one word, that shouldn't be broken and should be on next line, but LaTeX doesn't put a line break before it and lays it ...
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1answer
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Is there an alternative to LaTeX which isn't whitespace sensitive?
I have been using LaTeX for about a year now, and I quite like it.
However, I like to space out my source code. In most languages, this doesn't cause an issue,
as extra newlines don't affect meaning.
...
3
votes
1answer
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Discretionary equation breaking at a particular symbol
I have long equations that I want LaTeX to break automatically. After some extensive searching I have been unable to work out how to achieve this effect. I have breqn in my package list, however it ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to break the following aligned?
I don't want to use the displayed math environment for which \allowdisplaybreak is designed. Shortly speaking, is it possible to break the following alined by defining something like ...
2
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1answer
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Linebreak without justification if remaining Text doesn't fit [duplicate]
I have a text (justified block paragraph) with an author attribution.
If the last line of the text has enough space left to fit the author attribution and some space, then it should be put into that ...
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How to generate non-blanks between words?
In an otherwise-vanilla latex doc, I have a long list of strings that I need separated by <space> <cdot> <space>. The output needs to look like:
Lorem <cdot> ipsum ...
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votes
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How can I fix this overfull hbox?
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{chemfig}
\usepackage[margin=1.2in]{geometry}
\newcommand{\chem}{\setatomsep{2em}\chemfig}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item[--] 1$^\circ$ Alcohol ...
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1answer
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Prevent words such as 'the' from appearing at the end of the line
I write my document in Latex for Mac and I don't know how to prevent Latex from putting 'the' and similar short words at the end of the line. I already tried impnattypo and encxvlna packages, but none ...
5
votes
1answer
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Chemfig new line reaction scheme
I just recently started using LaTeX and chemfig and have a question in regard with making a new line in the text below or above the reaction arrow. I am trying to place MW, 160C, 5min under Na2CO3, ...
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vote
1answer
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How to add equation with cases inside the table
I want to include the complicated equation into one of the cells of my table. I am using tabular environment, additionally I have some multirows. I would like to add something like this:
...
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votes
1answer
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Spaces in references
I have the following reference :
@misc{pcons,
author = {Energy.Gov},
title = {{Estimating Appliance and Home Electronic Energy Use}},
Howpublished = ...
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1answer
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How to create a table with merged columns and rows, and wrapped text, like in MS Word?
The above can easily be created in MS word, but how can I create something like this in latex? Basically changing the columns for specific cells, merging a bunch of cells together, wrapping text in ...
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Overfull \hbox caused by em-dash
There is one problem that currently seems insolvable to me. I am typesetting a book in Russian language and I noticed that, in some cases, an overfull box appears which cannot be solved via manual ...
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votes
1answer
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Why hyperref doesn't break links when using \href but it does when using \url ? Bibtex entries in the middle of a document?
I encountered the following problem while preparing my CV. There are a few links prepared by hyperref that are not broken in several lines. I am wondering if there is a way to fix this problem.
This ...
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4answers
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Splitting root symbol
How can the \sqrt command be modified to split root symbol into two or more lines automatically?
Example:
\documentclass{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.8\textwidth}
...
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vote
1answer
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New paragraph without \newline?
I am writing on a larger text and sometimes I want to begin a new paragraph. So I don't want to have a new heading, just a space for visiual reasons. Currently I use the solution with \\ \newline
For ...
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1answer
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Specify number of columns in brqalign
Some time ago David Carlisle wrote an awesome brqalign function in this answer: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/51543/4011. See the cited code below.
How to modify the brqalign environment such that ...
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votes
1answer
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Force DOI on a newline in reference list
I'm using biblatex for my citations (using xelatex). This is the relevant code to invoke the reference list:
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear, doi=true, firstinits=true, ...
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votes
2answers
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Some text lines are longer than the rest of the column
Some text lines are not wrapped correctly and they are longer than the rest of the column. How to solve this?
Here a MWE:
\documentclass{acm_proc_article-sp}
\begin{document}
PTX source modules have ...
2
votes
1answer
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Line return/spacing after \hrulefill
I'm new to LaTeX and am trying to make a simple resume. I'd like my left-justified name to appear above an \hrulefill line followed by my right-justified address on the next line.
However, when I do ...
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votes
1answer
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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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votes
2answers
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Custom verbatim that sets all spaces (“ ”) as visible spaces (“␣”) that can line-break
It makes sense to typeset code in a monospaced font. Sometimes such code needs to be embedded in a paragraph context, and then it will be useful to allow it to linebreak. In order to visualize spaces ...
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votes
2answers
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Breaking a long math expression
I am trying to type long expression by using parenthesis inserting some sentences, as an example I have a expression like product of
\documentclass{12 pt}{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{multline}
...
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2answers
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\hspace is not working after \newline command
I am currently working on my thesis report and would like to add affirmation to it. Following is the minimal code for the same :
\documentclass[]{article}
\begin{document}
\section*{Affirmation}
...
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votes
2answers
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Correct line-breaking of long math expression
What is the correct way of breaking such unnumbered equation into multiple lines?
\begin{equation*}
\lim_{\bigtriangleup t \to 0^+}\int_{\bigtriangleup t}^{T} \! \int_{\Omega} \! D(t_1,x) ...
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votes
1answer
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Inline equation doesn't fit in page
I have an inline equation that I don't want to split in lines.
If I use
foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar ${ B = A \cap \{ T \leq n \} }$
It doesn't fit in the page's width ...
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votes
1answer
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How to align this long equation which out put from Mathematica
I use Mathematica, and use the command TeXForm from Mathematica, I get
\{\{x\to -19,y\to 4,z\to 11,t\to -14,m\to
11,n\to 19\},\{x\to -19,y\to 4,z\to 11,t\to
19,m\to 11,n\to ...
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votes
2answers
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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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votes
2answers
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How to get line-breaking / multirow to work in the caption of my beginner's table?
How to get line-breaking / multirow to work in the caption of my beginner's table?
\caption{this is my first table's captive caption}
I'd like the caption to look sth like this:
this is my ...
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votes
1answer
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How to get line-breaking / multirow to work in my beginner's table?
I can't seem to get the multirow or pbox to give me a line break (of "automatic" width). The following won't compile successfully: note the two variations in the "TOTALLY" line. How can I fix it?
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1answer
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Algorithm code width problem
I have a problem in the width of the algorithm which I wrote as shown below, and I need to write it in a better way but I can't, any help?
This is my code:
\begin{algorithmic}
\WHILE{$GenC[i] ...
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votes
1answer
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\url wrapping extends into marginal notes space
This is a slightly odd one. I've been trying to get \url{} blocks to wrap really long URLs, and the only thing that seemed to work was to renew the \UrlBreaks command to allow breaking on practically ...
6
votes
1answer
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How to write text within \begin{verbatim} and \end{verbatim} in same line?
I am stuck on the following problem and don't know how to solve it.
Here is my problem :
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{verbatim}'\hfill\end{verbatim} MKS' which puts the word ...
5
votes
2answers
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Biblatex: URL-breaking not working in DVI-mode
I'm preparing my bibliography and noticed that biblatex-printbibliography produces Overfull \hbox several times.
Examples (gray lines indicates text margins, red line is the physical page margin):
...
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vote
1answer
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How to typeset a backslash and get line breaks in URLs?
I have a lot of Windows file/folder paths and register paths in my document. And I'm having 2 problems:
The \ is seen as and escape character which obviously doesn't compile. \\ Starts a new line ...
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votes
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 ...
5
votes
1answer
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biblatex: no linebreaks in name lists when typesetting ragged-right
When typesetting a bibliography \raggedright, biblatex seems to have trouble breaking a line between an author's first/last/middle names (and, if multiple authors are present, between two authors). ...
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votes
2answers
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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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votes
1answer
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Break multicolumn text at document margin with tabularx
I'm using tabularx to break the content of a column at the document margin (cf. Linebreak in table cell at document margin). But when I use \multicolumn in such a table, the instruction to break the ...
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vote
1answer
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How can one produce spaces of arbitrary (fixed or relative) width that (do or don't) linebreak?
Adobe InDesign lets me insert a wide variety of spaces:
over half a dozen spaces that allow for a line break (let's assume for the purpose of this question that they disappear in case of a line ...
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votes
2answers
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How to get autobreaking with sequential tables
So it appears that \hspace is not breakable, but is if it is followed by \allowbreak. Alternatively you can use \hskip1.0em as that is breakable.
So, if my understanding is correct, then why do the ...
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Using split to break a long equation
I am trying to break a long equation over multiple lines. It is here as follows:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
L(\textbf{q})=&\prod_{t=0}^{36}{q_{1}^{iB(t)sB(t+1)+iC(t)sC(t+1)}\\
&\quad\cdot ...
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votes
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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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Latex not showing properly citations
I use the following latex command for citation at latex.
\subsection{Subsection Example 1}
some tex ~\cite{maccormack2003managing} some text
and I get the following result.
As you can see the ...
