{line-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks paragraphs into lines and how those breaks can be influenced.

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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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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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Myanmar (Burmese) line breaking with XeLaTeX

I am having trouble getting Myanmar text to break at the end of lines properly. The previous question How do I wrap text that doesn't use SPACE character to segment word would appear to solve my ...
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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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Automatically prevent line-break at hyphen of specific words (e.g. “dual-self”)

Usually questions about hyphenation and line-breaks are concerned about how to allow hyphenation when a word already contains a hyphen. That's not what I'm after: I would like to prevent the word ...
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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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About autoindent and postbreak in the package listings

I am using the package listings to show my Matlab code. The code was pre-typed in a file and everything will be loaded from the file and a .tex file will be generated automatically to show the code ...
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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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Enforce a line-break inside \lstinline

I use \lstinline{foo} from the listings package to set pieces of code in regular text. To get automatic line-breaks I use the following options: \lstset{ breaklines=true, breakatwhitespace=true, ...
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Avoiding newline in latex report

I am writing one auto report in which I need to have some breakline and vertical spacing. I use newline but sometimes it is in horizontal mode. So I have to use \leavevmode before it. \leavevmode ...
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list: overfull error

I'm getting error: Overfull \hbox (11.66551pt too wide) in paragraph Code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{verbatim} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{url} % typeset URL's reasonably ...
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Table column fixed width does not fire

I have the springer svjour3 template and the user guide says that for tables the usual Latex 2e commands are used. Now, I would like to produce a table that goes over the whole page (the error is the ...
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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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Preventing line break at the start of a long name in `\lstinline`

This question has developed from How to deal with very long lstinline-phrases like long class names?. That question is about line breaking inside a \lstinline phrase. I have provided an answer which ...
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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 ...
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Manual Line Breaks not Counted by Log

I have been adding manual line breaks to paragraphs in my document using the \linebreak command because I have been suffering badly from overfull horizontal boxes. However when I compile my document ...