Questions tagged [line-breaking]
{line-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks paragraphs into lines and how those breaks can be influenced.
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Why does TeX break the line between -- and ,?
I have the following \hbox, and if I unbox it and put it to a paragraph (or when I just type aaa --, bbb or aaa --\nobreak, bbb), TeX is breaking the line between -- and ,.
> \box0=
\hbox(6.88875+...
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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 ....
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Break long word in tabular
I have a long word inside my tabular I need to break. The other rows and columns look perfect, but since this is only 1 word, the actual word overlaps on the other column. Not ideal.
Is there a ...
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How to carry long text of \href to the next line while ocgcolorlinks is present?
This simplest code
\documentclass[a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[ocgcolorlinks]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\href{"some URL"}{"long text"}
\end{document}
by compiling with pdflatex puts the "long ...
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longtabu and scrpage2: line breaks in page header cause compilation errors
Please consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{longtable,tabu}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{scrpage2}
\chead[Headline 1\\ Headline 2]{Headline 1\\ Headline 2}
\pagestyle{...
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Closing parenthesis as delimiter not matched when breaklines=true
I want code in parentheses and in brackets to appear in different colors. In the following document, the words brackets again appear in green as intended, and outside again is black as intended, but ...
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Insert a character at beginning of each line after the current one?
I'm looking for a way to obtain automatically the following layout of French "continuous guillemets", used in old typography when a citation includes another citation that spreads over several lines (...
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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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Start the content of an item on a new line after the item label in enumerate environment
How to have the full content of an enumerate item to start on a new line below the item label and number, and aligned to the left margin of the document ?
This question is closely related to this ...
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How does (or, what happens when) Tex typeset(s) a line and linebreak?
I could not find references to this with a cursory search, so I thought I'd post a question; I'm aware this is probably discussed at length in the Tex book or similar, but unfortunately I don't have ...
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Is it possible to have italic and bold text, and linebreaks under the \underline{text} command?
I was trying to emphasize text with \textbf, \textit and \underline commands. But the text will not automatically wrap to the next line. I also tried the ulem package, and it did not work too.
Does ...
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Wrap text at any point if normal hyphenation not possible
I have data (generated from a database, not manually typed in) that mostly fits into a table cell with fixed width, but sometimes overflows because there are long words for which no hyphenation is ...
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Preventing hyphenation of specific short, repeated, hyphenated words
I'm writing a document where I frequently refer to some experimental cases which are called things like "M-1" and "P-2". It's always a single number, a hyphen, and a single number. In several places, ...
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Section break that displays content iff it occurs in middle of a page
I'm trying to create a section break that will display a separator when it occurs in the middle of a page, but display nothing if it lies at the top or bottom of a page, where there's nothing to be ...
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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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How to avoid global \sloppy with many \texttt
I read that using a global \sloppy is bad practice. I have a document with many variables of a source code that I reference as in \texttt{VariableName}. I use a lot of them both in normal paragraphs ...
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seqsplit does not work unless the string is given as an argument directly
Consider the following example. If I do \seqsplit{ReferencedIDs} the string does not get split. If on the other hand, I insert the string as an argument directly it does. As usual, I don't know why ...
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Line break after description label
How can I ger a line break after the label of a description environment item? I'd like to keep the indentation and the bold face for the item label, but I'd like to have the body of the item in a ...
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Prevent line break before :
Here is my minimal code:
\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{french}
\begin{document}
Bonjour tout le monde. Si je vais au bout de la ligne, je vais avoir cela :...
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How to adjust macro to respect current \linewidth?
I'm having issues with text going past the end of the specified \textwidth. I posted this question about why text was being placed beyond the specified line width. The MWE provided there produced ...
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Landscape table to fit entire page by automatic line breaks
I want to include a large table into my document. I use the landscape environment to make it sideways and managed to make it fill out the entire width of the page by using \linewidth, but my table ...
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Adding extra lines/spaces in source, *not* affecting semantics
I'm editing a file with quite huge interleaves of text and formulas like this
lorem ipsums
\begin{align}
foo & bar\\
qux & rofl\\
& toto
\end{align}
lorem ipsums
…
And I face a ...
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condense non-numbered bibliography into one line
What I am trying to do is basically the same as (almost) answered here:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/5574/39336
The difference is that I am using a different bibstyle. This bibstyle creates the ...
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Make \texttt not exceed line length
I have to state a few long numbers in a document. These aren't meant to be regarded as regular numbers but instead as data. So I don't want to format them with \num{<...>} but with \texttt{<.....
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Prevent line breaking in inline math, but allow flexible spacing
How can I easily tell Latex to prevent line-breaks inside a part of an inline formula, without affecting inter-word spacing?
Writing something like $ab(c+d)$ in Latex is bad: Latex might put a line ...
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Obtain \badness or glue adjustment for each line
This might be interesting for perfectionists and/or fastidious typesetters who would like to improve the document even further (beyond the beyond the magnificence of a book with zero bad boxes).
We ...
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How do I manually break a line in the title of my thesis -- using the U of Maine package
I'm using the LaTeX class package to write my thesis according to University of Maine formatting guidelines. I'm running into an issue with line breaks in the title. I'm required to break my title ...
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Copy from PDF without line breaks at end of each line
When I produce the PDF, open it and copy the paragraph into notepad, there is a forced line break at the end of every line in the PDF. Is there a way to get over this, so that I can copy the paragraph ...
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Tabular, parbox, vertical alignment
What i want to achieve is really simple:
I want to be able to align cell content at the top (which is the default behavior of tabular) while being able to manually break lines (and anything you could ...
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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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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 word,...
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How to use \sloppy for just some references?
I’m using XeLaTeX within MiKTeX and also the biblatex package for the literature.
I’ve noticed that my bibliography set using \printbibliography is not set with the \sloppy option by default, which ...
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How to join paragraphs with a pilcrow \P?
Background
There are many typographically distinct ways to separate paragraphs from one another, the most common being starting each paragraph on a new line with either an indent or additional ...
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When can I safely add an empty line?
I really like spacing my LaTeX to stay organized, but I'm always scared that adding a space will affect the output when all I really wanted to do was separate the "code" a bit.
So most of the time I ...
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Non-breaking space in \citet using natbib?
When adding citations in the body of a document I'm used to write
... in some interesting paper~\cite{interesting}.
So that (if I'm using numbered references) the word “paper” and the citation ...
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Break a subfigure set in two lines
Is it possible to break a figure block made by three subfigures in two lines? I would like to maintain the first subfigure on the first line and the other subfigures on the second line.
\begin{figure*...
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Manually breaking a long URL (in the bibliography)
I have a large bibliography in which a few items are causing underfull hboxes due to a long URL. Answers to similar questions suggest a number of global options for fixing this; e.g.
Forcing ...
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Does amsmath provide any medium to auto-break equations?
I'm writing large equations in texlive with amsmath, and I want them to be automatically broken at the end of the line. Is there any way to do that with amsmath?
What would you recommend me to do ...
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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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Is there way to put hard space after defined words? [duplicate]
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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Break Lines in minted environment
Usually when adding code in a LaTeX document, I use the listings package. When trying to modify and personalise styles in listings, @1010011010 suggested to use the minted package.
To be quite frank, ...
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How to make a title of two or more lines?
My document has a long title, so I want the title spans two lines.
I've use this:
\title{my title that must be in two or more lines}
but it doesn't work. How can I get it done?
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Why is \linebreak failing?
Consider the following minimal, using \linebreak:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered
my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day
and ...
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Line breaks in TikZ nodes [duplicate]
I have this code that outputs a small family tree
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{trees}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
man/.style={...
Daniel Novais
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Multi-line legend entry in pgfplots
In some of my plots the curve description in the legend is too long, making the legend going over the plot, even if the legend is placed as far away as possible. Therefore I want to have multiple ...
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What to do when a line in a bibliography entry overflows?
The usual solution to fix lines that overflow is to rewrite it. However, that hardly works with bibliography entries that experience the same problem.
So what can I do to fix it? I can't rewrite ...
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How do I keep a string of text together without it doing a line break?
I'm writing up a long paper, in which in prose I have various equations. However, I do not want a line break to occur within the equation - I want the equation to stick together. I want to do this ...
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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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Something like \raisebox that respects line breaks
If one wants to raise some text one uses something like
\raisebox{0.5 em}{some text}
However this doesn't respect line breaks and may cause some nasty overflows.
Is there a way to have \raisebox ...
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Text out of margins
I don't know why, but a line in my text is out of margins.
How can I avoid this issue?
I'm using classicthesis in TeXworks.
Edit: with the command
\overfullrule=5pt
I can see a black square where ...
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