{line-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks paragraphs into lines and how those breaks can be influenced.
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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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Text does not fit into table which causes bad box errors
I use Excel2Latex to convert tables in Excel to Latex, however a problem arises when the text is too long to fit in the column and I get many bad box errors. My code is:
% Table generated by ...
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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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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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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. ...
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How to highlight arabic texts with allowing line breaks?
I would like to highlight some texts. For Latin texts the \hl command of the soul package works well, but not for Arabic texts.
(\hl{SOME ARABIC TEXT} has only a small line as output in the pdf ...
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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 ...
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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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bibtex: URL and DOI line breaks on different characters
In my references, I want to allow DOI's to break on a slash '/' character (or as a last resort on any character) to avoid underfull lines like the third reference below. Note that URL's are already ...
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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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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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votes
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.
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one-letter word at the end of line
This question led to a new feature in a package:
impnattypo
I come from Poland and I'm writing some text in my native language. One of our typography standards is that we do not leave ...
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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 ...
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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
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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votes
1answer
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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 ...
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votes
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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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votes
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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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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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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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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votes
1answer
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Newline in a “cases” environment
I have the same issue as in this question: Split-like environment inside cases environment with one difference - I would like to get the same result with LyX, using as little LaTeX code as possible. ...
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votes
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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votes
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
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Mutliple inputs with line breaking
I am trying to write an algorithm with multiple inputs in algorithm2e.
The result I would like to have is something like
Algorithm
-------------------
Input: Input number 1
Input number 2
...
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votes
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Achieve Linebreak in DOI in biblatex
In my references (using XeLaTeX, biblatex and Biber) I have one specific DOI that is hanging over more than a centimeter after line-break.
All other DOI are correctly wrapped. Even inserting a (wrong ...
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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 ...
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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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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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votes
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
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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 ...
5
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
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
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
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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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Line breaks and the URL package
Long URLs need to be broken at the end of a line. Here's a topic about that. That topic suggests adding the hyphens option to the URL package, and also to define
...
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How to allow line break in a long hyperlink in a PDF compiled by latex-dvips-ps2pdf?
I am using latex-dvips-ps2pdf steps with -Ppdf option passed to dvips. The following code snippet
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{breakurl}
...
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vote
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
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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Line breaking of URLs in bibliographies
I have a problem with the line break of an URL. The URL can´t break correct and extends into the border. I´ve tried some things. Amongst others I loaded the package breakurl, but without any success. ...
