{line-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks paragraphs into lines and how those breaks can be influenced.
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Help me fix “Underfull \hbox” warning
I meet the trouble with an "Underfull \hbox" warning with this code:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,final]{book}
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
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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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Long equations breaking without using breqn
How to achieve nice (non-automatic) long equations breaking, like dmath environment from breqn package does automatically, but using a more common environment, e.g., multline, multlined (from ...
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Prevent line-breaking after short words
The publisher requires that most of short words (shorter then 4 chars, and all the prepositions, etc.) should not be left last on the line but kept with the following word.
Wrong:
Following the ...
2
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1answer
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Is it possible to change the font of the text from a listing?
I have a listing of my Java code currently the font is too big and the code runs off the page.
Here is what my listing looks like:
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Citations go out of margins [duplicate]
Some of my citations overflow into my margins. See below. I am wondering if there is any solution to this? I am using \bibliographystyle{apalike}.
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How to put a line-break in section heading?
I have some section headings occupying two lines and I'm not satisfied with the way XeLaTeX breaks the heading. If I manually add \\ the output looks fine, but I get the following warning:
[hyperref] ...
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Line break in section name
Is there any easy way to force a line break in a section name manually, without getting the line break in the Table of Contents? It's because I have a rather long section name, and it breaks just only ...
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create a non breaking environment [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to prevent LaTeX from line-breaking a phrase?
I add names of persons into an index.
How can I prevent that there will be a line brake in the name?
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Breaking inline equation at several punctuation characters
I am trying to define a command which automatically allows linebreaks inside inline equations at several punctuation characters — I am aware of \allowbreak but don’t want to manually insert it; here, ...
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Why does a color meant for the first typeset line *only* (with package magaz) affect the *entire* document?
I am trying to make a nice layout that gives a different style to the first line in a section using the package magaz. All examples I have seen feature some variation of small caps
{\scshape text}
or ...
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2answers
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Split environment wrong braces dimensions
I have to split a quite long formula. I used a nested split environment but I have to break curly braces from one line to another using \right. and \left.
The curly braces I get have different ...
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1answer
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issues after verbatim section
I'm havin an issue which I cannot solve. If I have a subsubsection containing text with a verbatim section in between, the first line after the verbatim section is not aligned properly. If I put a ...
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2answers
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Equation does NOT go new lines, while using \newline
I've been trying to typset an equation which, at a certain point, spans several lines, but is a single step (so no numbering may occur). For this I used newline, but this doesn't seem to work. How do ...
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1answer
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Verb end of the line alignement
I have a problem when I use the command \verb|detectionFinProgramme|. I don't know how to manage LaTex to get a normal alignement at the end of the line.
Does someone have a solution ?
Thanks in ...
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Changing the style of the first *typeset* line of a paragraph
I've been playing around with dropcaps in LaTeX (with the yfonts and lettrine packages), and one typographical effect you often see after dropcaps is having the entire first line of the paragraph ...
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1answer
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ttfamily usage (newline failing)
I'm unable to insert a new line while using \ttfamily.
Is there any reason why \ttfamily prevents to do that?
My problem (here's the code):
Let's consider an e-commerce web application whose address ...
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1answer
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Environment prints same character at beginning of each output line
I am writing a Latex document with pseudocode interspersed with theorems and discussion. Some of the comments in the pseudocode are long. I would like to automatically start (and end) each output line ...
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How to insert a non-stretching but line-breaking thin space?
How do I insert a small space that looks like the space I get with \, but allows a line break like a normal space does? I.e., I'm looking for a non-stretching, non-non-breaking space whose width is ...
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Proof environment - line break after the “Proof.”
I want to make the proof environment in amsthm package to auto add a line break right after the "Proof."
I tried the following code, which also removed the QED sign, but it doesn't work: No linebreak ...
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1answer
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Set width of section title
I try to prevent section titles of breaking "too early", i.e. leaving so much room between it and the page border.
Like in this screenshot, I would like the "system" and the "digestion" to be in the ...
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1answer
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Why do citations break my page's layout?
I am having troubles with citations. As seen on the attached screenshot, they sometimes don't do linebreaking properly, but produce an error overfull hbox and break my layout.
Here are the relevant ...
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An environment for setting \emergencystretch locally
The following environment, copied from this website about dealing with overfull hboxes, allows one to change the \tolerance parameter for just the paragraph(s) it encloses:
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Persuading (la)tex “silently to go beyond the envelope of 'good taste' ” to avoid an overfull hbox
My understanding, based on reading this website, is that (la)tex performs at most three passes when trying to typeset a paragraph: one based on \pretolerance, one based on \tolerance, and one based on ...
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1answer
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How to force some words to start on a new line when they tend to overflow
I'll start with the example
As you can see, the HTTP/1.0 is not justified. If it were a normal word, I would add it to hyphenation rules. But obviously I can't split this one. So how can I force it ...
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The Title of Document Runs off the page, as part of header on page 3
Here's my preamble:
\documentclass[11pt]{amsart}
\usepackage{geometry} % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout options. There are lots.
\geometry{letterpaper} % ... or ...
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Adding overfull hbox 'slugs' to final document version
I'm using a documentclass which looks dramatically different in draft mode compared to final. I'm preparing my document for the final formatting, so I don't want to pass the draft option.
However I ...
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3answers
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Preventing newline from left column from forcing a newline in the right column
I'm writing a CV in LaTeX, and got started with the sample called Writing a CV in LaTeX.
I'm trying to modify it so that a newline in the left column does not force a newline in the right column. ...
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votes
1answer
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Automatic break line after multicolumn
Is there a way to put \\ after multicolumn automatically, each time it appears in the code? Pseudocode would look like this:
\newcommand{\commandThatAddsBreaklines}
if(thereIsAMulticolumn == true)
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1answer
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How to avoid citations being placed on a new line when \blockcquote ends with a list?
When csquotes's \blockquote and displaycquote ends with a list the citation is put on the next line after the list rather than directly after the last list item. Can one force csquotes to place the ...
3
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1answer
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automatic \allowbreak around mathbin and mathrel characters
I would like linebreaks to be permitted within math formulas on both sides of any characters of the mathbin and mathrel character classes. It seems like linebreaking is by default only permitted after ...
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2answers
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\cite spills over into the margin
As you can see at the picture, a citation spills over into the margin of my paper. How can I resolve the issue?
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2answers
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inline equation outside margin
My inline equation falls outside the margin. I was wondering if there is any solution for that? Here is the MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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1answer
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Text gets out beyond the table
I use WinEdit and try to make a table. The problem is that I can not move the text in a multirow to the second line. There are the packages I use:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
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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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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 ...
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1answer
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How do I get multiple ToC entries on the same line with tocloft?
This question is almost a repeat of previous one : How do I get multiple ToC entries in the same line?.
However, I need an answer using tocloft, not titletoc, since tocloft customization capabilities ...
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1answer
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How to prevent \cite at the end of the sentence start a new line with a dot
When I end a sentence like this:
Here is something you should read \cite{name}.
Sometimes the end of the sentence coincies with the end of a row. In this case the next line begins with the dot at ...
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1answer
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Prohibiting line break at specific point of url while using \url command
I have a \url{some.edu/page} that breaks just before .edu I would like to have it break at the / at worst, or not at all. How can I do that?
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1answer
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How to emulate titletoc with tocloft
I was using titletoc until I realized that it has some incompatibilities with hyperref. The thing is, that titletoc can do the same thing in a easier way, less one.
\titlecontents*{subsection}[5.4em]
...
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\documentclass[convert]{standalone} ignores linebreak
I tried to combine this answer Compile a LaTeX document into a PNG image that's as short as possible
with my answer Add column in a table
But the pdflatex -shell-escape table.tex ignores ...
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2answers
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When to use \par and when \\
What is the difference between \par and \\ and when should I use \par instead of \\?
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Forbid word breaking (ConTeXt)
In the following example
\definefont[Shehkl][name:Scheherazade*arabic at 15pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*... file:alq.ttf
\definestartstop[Arab][commands=\setups{Arabic}]
\def\Arab{\doArab}
...
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2answers
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\noalign without line break / additional spacing
I need a non-breaking version/redefinition of \noalign to use it at the end of an environment (in this case align). So far I searched for the standard definition of \noalign to write a redefinition ...
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votes
1answer
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count the newlines in title
I am trying to automatically adjust the title page to get a pleasing result independent of the title size. This means that I have to count the number of line breaks in an argument.
My MWE (not very ...
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Preventing line break between a word and comma (ConTeXt) [closed]
In the following example
\definefont[Shehkl][name:Scheherazade*arabic at 15pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*... file:alq.ttf
\definestartstop[Arab][commands=\setups{Arabic}]
\def\Arab{\doArab}
...
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0answers
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Auto-breaking of Equation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I split an equation over two lines
I want to make my own class file having a two columns. I just want to ask if there's a possibility where we can automatically ...
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votes
1answer
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LaTeX Centering newline in subfloat caption
I have these images with their title beneath:
I want to add some information below, like this:
The good news is, I'm able to do it. The last screenshot is from my pdf previewer.
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2answers
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Badbox with Bibtex, how to fix it?
The problem:
How to fix bad boxes done by bibtex? Latex copy and paste bibtex formatted entries to the text, but these entries exceed the correct space.
Details:
I using main.tex with this header:
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votes
1answer
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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, ...
