{line-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks paragraphs into lines and how those breaks can be influenced.
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Add space 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 can I add space between the rows of brqalign?
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line-breaking inside multirow environment in a pgfplotstable
I want to combine two string columns into one column. The contents of the columns should be in two lines, i.e., first column's content must be in the first row of the combined column and second ...
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No correct centering when a line break is used
I have a centering environment inside a figure. In this environment, I have a text written in a footnotesize style. If I make a line break (\\) in the text, then the text is not centered correctly ...
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Right-align the prebreak symbol in a listings environment
I’m using the breaklines and prebreak option with listings, but I find it visually not very pleasing that the prebreak-symbols are not vertically aligned. I’d prefer if they were all on the very right ...
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1answer
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Colorbox inside Multicols
So I am using the multicols environment and I want to have the background of some portions of the column colored.
However, I see that multicols does not play well with xcolor and colored sentences ...
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Quote environment with reference at the end right
I want to define a quote environment such that after the quote on the right occurs the author with page number. My solution is yet the redefinition of the quote environment
\usepackage{amsthm} % ...
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Why does Context line-break my quotation and leave the quotation sign on it's own row?
Using Context to set a book I have the following problem: Context linebreaks some quotations in a way that makes the quotation sign (in my case a guillemet [sic!]) appear on its own row. How can i ...
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How to add line break to caption without using caption package
I wish to add a line break to a caption, but I would wish to avoid adding of caption package. Is it possible?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[format=plain,
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How to break long expressions automatically in displaymode? [duplicate]
Whenever an expression is too long, it will be broken automatically in inline mode but done nothing in displaymode
E.g.
MWE:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
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How to get the abstract title to runin
We have written a style class file and I need the abstract to be in a special format to the rest of the report. It ought to look like such:
Abstract - text text text...
But with the current ...
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4answers
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How to break a line after the n-th word?
Suppose i have a raw text defined as:
\newcommand{\rawtext}{this is some raw text with many words in it}
How to break this line after a given word or position? Of course, i only have access to ...
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How to break lines in conditions using algorithm2e?
I am trying to (partially) reproduce the algorithm displayed in Figure 4 from NetFlow: Information Loss or Win?
My problem is with the multi-line conditions present in the "IFs". I want them to be ...
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Autobreaking for long numbers [duplicate]
So I have a really really long number (300 digits) that I want latex to show but when I write it it just overflows out of the edge of the paper.
How can I make it automatically break to the next line ...
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Insert a linebreak only if there was none before
I am looking for a way to tell TeX:
Please break that line if and only if you are not on new line already.
I need this for a new environment which should always start in a new line. But I don't ...
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What is the difference between \nobreak and \nolinebreak?
What is the difference between \nobreak and \nolinebreak?
I noticed that a lot of solutions in TeX.SE use the former, but I thought the latter is LaTeX while the former is plain TeX. And LaTeX macros ...
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How to break a long equation?
I have a long equation but long enough to occupy two lines.
I want to break it to improve readability. How can I break it?
\begin{equation}
F = \{F_{x} \in F_{c} : (|S| > |C|) \cap
(minPixels ...
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1answer
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Prevent underful hbox in custom environment
I created an environment for a thesis about a framework, which formats documentation of some methods. The method(s) are at the top with one line per method, set with \lstinline from the listings ...
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How to wrap a word in line without hyphen?
I m writing one article in which i need to write a paragraph full of medical terms. How can i wrap a text in a line without using line break (or hyphen)?
Regards
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Creating an enumerate-description style environment
I've been trying to create a list environment to produce something that does the following:
It has a counter (like the enumerate environment).
The first line of each item is an overview of the item ...
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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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How to deal with very long lines that do not contain spaces?
I have a problem with a lstlisting environment. I want to use it for displaying several very long lines that can not be reformatted. Independently of the option breakatwhitespace=true or false my ...
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The statement of a theorem appearing on a new line
I'm using the amsthm package. The statement of the theorem currently appears immediately after the words "Theorem X." I'd like the statement of the theorem to appear on a new line. Is this possible?
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Problem with sizing side-by-side minipages
I've been writing up my resume in LaTeX (for the flashiness and also to get better with LaTeX), and I've been having some trouble with one of the macros I wrote, called \nrccolstring.
\nrccolstring ...
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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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How are space tokens and empty lines processed by long commands (as their potential arguments)?
How are spaces and empty lines processed by long commands (i.e., those that do not accept paragraph breaks inside)? Are there different space tokens aside from " " and an empty line? It appears that ...
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Line breaks in listings with long lines
This is a follow-up question to Line breaks in listings
My MWE with a very long line demonstrate the problem:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstdefinelanguage{text}{}
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Dots are smaller when UrlBreaks defined [closed]
this is an follow-up question to Forcing linebreaks in \url
The solution
\renewcommand{\UrlBreaks}
works fine to break URL, but than the dot (.) in an URL is smaller in the pdf. The following MWE ...
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How can I make a pair of words stick together in line breaks?
How can I make a pair of words stick together in line breaks? For example, "MS Access". I don't want a line break in the middle. But, I'd like to set this up once, not at every occurrence of that ...
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1answer
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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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unexpected interaction between \raggedright and \parshape
While answering Random start of line, I came upon a strange interaction between \raggedright and \parshape.
If a ragged-right paragraph ends in a short line, this line will be "the most ragged".
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1answer
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Breaking equation in align enviroment to put textwidth matrix in separate line
I have to put a textwidth pmatrix into an align environment. When using split, it destroys the centered alignment of the other equation.
Pseudocode:
\begin{align}
\vec{a} &= \vec{b} + \vec{c} ...
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1answer
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Line breaks in listings
Is there a way like wrap the line after at most 60 letters but it should not break inside some commands like listings does?
Example:
\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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Automatically line breaking text, or extending arrows in tikz
Is it possible to automatically make the text line break so that it does not overflow into the nodes? An alternative is to have the nodes automatically moved farther away to accommodate the longer ...
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line break in tabular
I try to set a line break within a tabular environment where the column is not definded with p{$width}. I've tried the following without the expected result
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
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2answers
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Multiline listing within multicolumn row
I have a problem putting a listing (using lstlisting package) within a table. The problem is that I want to put a multiline listing in a row taking 2 columns.
The following minimal example shows ...
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How to wrap text in table with delimiter?
I have one long text in a column of table. I want to wrap this it into a cell by using delimiter "/". How can I do it in longtable?
ABCDEFGHIJ/DATSET
Format: ABCDEFGHIJ
DATSET
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Is there way to put hard space after defined words?
In Polish typography, one should avoid putting prepositions at the end of the line.
Example:
Nie wiedziałem, że nie umieszcza się przyimków na
końcu strony. - bad
Nie wiedziałem, że nie umieszcza się ...
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Disable chapter separation in \listoffigures and \listoftables
I use \listoffigures and \listoftables. Both commands create line breaks for items from different chapters. How can you stop that?
Screenshot:
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Over citation in Springer template with pdflatex
I'm writing a paper for a Springer journal.
So I downloaded the LaTeX template.
http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/LaTeX.zip
The problem is that multiple citations ...
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Sudden “Overfull \hbox” warning messages
(Apologies if this is a duplicate; I didn't see my question among the many overfull \hbox questions already asked.)
My TeX file had been typsetting without any problems for a few days, when suddenly ...
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How to define the badness of a river?
I've written an algorithm to try and detect rivers in paragraphs and it actually detects quite a lot when I run it. Some of them are clearly false positives, but there are others that are indeed ...
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\lstinline break at punctuation
I need listing package (\usepackage{listing}) to break at punctuation
namespace::subnamespace::class
^ ^
at either these two locations
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1answer
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llncs and caption - underfull hbox
I'm using the llncs document class and try to get two figures side-by-side. I found a solution, but I get a hbox underflow if my captions have a bad length. Here is a minimal example:
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What is the difference between \newline and \\?
As far as I know, \\ and \newline both insert a new line. But they do not have an identical expansion and tracing shows they do not execute the same commands, so what is their difference?
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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 ...
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Box around raggedright links spanning two lines extends to right margin
I need to use boxed links and ragged right text. The problem is that when a link spans two lines, though the link is broken correctly (when using pdflatex) the box around the linked text extends until ...
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Big Table with line and pagebreaks
For a technical documentation (two columns: function name left, description right) I need a way for automatic line and page breaks in a table environment in case the descriptions get a bit longer.
I ...
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How to remove newline character after case statement in algorithm2e?
I don't want any newline character after case statement. How can I do that?
This is my code:
\begin{algorithm}[t]
\SetInd{0.5em}{0.5em}
\KwIn{Data $\mathsf{D}$}
\KwOut{List of Simple Hints}
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Line break (continuation) for commands (options, arguments)
How to do proper line breaking (continuation) for commands, i.e. their options and/or their arguments? For example, in order to transform this:
\usepackage[top=1.0cm, bottom=1.0cm, left=1.0cm, ...
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How can I get a very wide table to wrap all three rows within the margins?
I have a series of tables that are going to be very (very!) wide, but with only 3 rows. Is there any way I can get the tables to wrap within my margins, without having to break the rows within the ...
