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How to force LaTeX not to break the line after a hyphen “-”?
With ~ we can enforce that no line break occures between two words.
But this does not seem to work with special characters. I want LaTeX to enforce not to break the line after the - in (re-)creation.
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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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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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\slash allows for hyphenation of only the word on its left; how to fix it for the right-hand word
I often use \slash to allow for linebreak after the slash. However I found that \slash doesn't allow for hyphenation of the word to its right, while it does for the word on its left. How do I use ...
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How to break long URLs using common hyphenation but adding a line feed indicator?
I saw several questions like this one that request a solution for breaking apart URLs.
I wonder if it is possible to hyphenate the words in a URL as it happens in normal text (i.e., breaking apart ...
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Hyphenation problem with — versus \textemdash
While investigating problems with hyphenation and em-dashes, I came across this:
a piece---perhaps an installation---, involving structural feedback
The document class is article. The problem was ...
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How to break long word containing symbols but with no hyphen?
Below is my minimum working example:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,draft]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
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4answers
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Is there a special hyphen-symbol to be used between capital letters?
In words consisting of small letters, the - hyphen seems right. In words (abbreviations, acronyms) consisting of capital letters, the common hyphen appears (at least imho) to be placed too low and to ...
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amsmath nobreakdash definition to allow normal hyphenation
In the amsmath package documentation it is written:
\newcommand{\n}[1]{$n$\nobreakdash-\hspace{0pt}}
The last example
shows how to prohibit a linebreak after the hyphen but allow normal
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5
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2answers
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Linebreak between numbers connected by dash
In my text I am using lots of dates. Now I have the following problem: 1480–1541 (two figures and between them a dash) appears at the end of one line and extends over the line into the margin space ...
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Allow line break, but without inserting a dash
I have a sentence that contains a number of long dataset names. I would like to allow LaTeX to break these names at certain positions that I would like to specify somehow just like I can use \- to ...
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Hyphenating a number in the BibTeX pages field
Some journals, such as Phys. Rev. B., use unusual page numbering conventions, such as 081401-1–081401-4. (Depending on the way this gets rendered by your computer, you may not be able to discern that ...
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How to prevent linebreaks after hyphen if word starts with hyphen?
(Remark: Maybe this is a typically German problem, I'm not sure in which other languages that might be relevant)
Sometimes there are words which start with a hyphen, as they are connected with a word ...
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3answers
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Adequate hyphenation of words already containing a hyphen
Contrary to English, in German there are quite a few words containing a hyphen, e.g. "Arbeiter-Unfallversicherung" (workers' accident insurance). By default, (La)TeX will only break such words after ...
