Questions tagged [discretionary]
{discretionary} is for questions about the TeX primitive \discretionary (or variants thereof, such as LaTeX's \- shortcut), used to typeset text conditionally in a line break or otherwise. Questions about {discretionary} may also use the {line-breaking} and/or {hyphenation} tags, if appropriate. Questions about discretionary ligatures should be tagged {ligatures} instead.
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How does `\discretionary` work?
In poking around in someone else's package, I found the \discretionary command being used quite a lot. I wanted to hook into the code being used in one of its arguments, but found that my code got ...
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Typesetting a comma unless before a line break
I'm trying to create a template (.sty file) that will typeset
[value of macro 1], [value of macro 2]
if this expression does not exceed the length of the line, and
[value of macro 1]
[value of ...
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How to change color inside `\discretionary` with luacolor?
I'm working on applying the answer to my question about color and ligatures and have run into a problem when the color change is supposed to happen inside a discretionary. Boiled down to a MWE and it ...
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LuaTeX and the minus / hyphen sign
In light of the explanations given in LuaTeX and em dashes
"\automatichyphenmode=1 avoids the problem by not converting the hyphen to a discretionary in a number of cases."
and the LuaTeX Reference ...
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How do I use textcolor inside discretionary?
I'm trying to get long inline code to wrap at points that I specify with \-. I've got it working almost perfectly with this:
% !TEX program = xelatex
\documentclass[fontsize=11pt,pagesize=auto,...
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Breaking a line only when not doing so would cause an overfull \hbox
In my thesis, I have a subsection title which generates an overfull \hbox in the body of the thesis, but not in the table of contents. So I would like to instruct TeX to break the line in the body, ...
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Automatic discretionary hyphenation in ConTeXt
I am trying to make ConTeXt to do the automatic discretionary hyphenations native to the Hungarian language.
In fact, a Hungarian word asszonnyal is explicitly included in lang-hyp.lua source code's ...
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Letters after discretionary disappear (seems an issue of package fontspec)?
For the following case,
% !TeX program = xelatex
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
\hsize =2in
shelf{}ful shelf{}ful shelf\-ful di\discretionary{f-}{fi}{f\...
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Discretionary macro doesn't work with microtype and Adobe Garamond Pro in LuaLaTeX [closed]
I've run into a problem with the combination of microtype package (v2.6a), LuaLaTeX (Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015) (rev 5238)) and Adobe Garamond Pro font, when macro \discretionary doesn't work ...
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How to set hyphenation parameters automatically in LuaTeX?
In the following example we need to hyphenate "aa-aa", but not "bbbb".
How to set righthyphenmin=2 automatically if all letters of a word are "a", and keep it default for all other cases?
\...
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Discretionary hyphens for words in dot-notation
we're working on a technical document with some special requirement identifier, which use a dot-notation. For example:
FRQ.SW.MOD.GUI.1
FRQ.DATA.LOG.OUT.PRINT.1
As you might expect we get a lot of ...
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Redefinition of \- (discretionary hyphen): does not apply to a minipage?
I would like to redefine \- (discretionary hyphen) as part of several shortcuts for arrows, like \-> = \rightarrow or \<- = \leftarrow, especially useful for the often used equivalence arrow \&...
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Discretionary hyphens don't work in paragraphed footnotes, bug?
I am getting the impression that discretionary hyphens don't work at all in paragraphed footnotes, not really depending on which package is used for the footnotes. I've painfully experienced it with ...
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\- doesn't work in footnote
In the following example the \- in the footnote doesn't work. In Indian languages "dh" is one letter and should not be separated by hyphenation. I know I could use \discretionary here, but I want to ...
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Hyphenation penalty
Say I have done \hyphenation{a-no-ma-ly}. In the text, the word is broken ano-maly. This is (etymologically) displeasing, but may be better than the spacing that would result from barring it. Can I do ...
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assign penalty to one discretionary (not all paragraph)
For a quite complex problem that would be too long to describe, I need to set different penalties for different discretionaries in the same paragraphe. It doesn't seem to be possible with pdfTeX (and ...
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Line Breaking Question with Polyglossia
I am working with multiple languages (with polyglossia and XeLaTeX), and I am having issues with extra line breaks where I don't expect them, also likely related to an issue of not hyphenating where ...
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Is there a way to apply different penalties to hyphenation points in a word?
Background: The quality of hyphenation points within a word can vary by a large amount. Especially in languages that allow rather arbitrary combinations of words, such as German. As an example, ...
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How to break long words after n chars (long genomic sequences)
I have to include relatively small genomic sequences in a Latex document (still, they are words of around 600-900 As Ts Gs and Cs) but I cannot find a way to force line wrapping after a certain number ...
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Accessing pointers in LuaTeX
This code writes the subtype of disc nodes to the log file.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\directlua{
show_hyph = function(head)
while head do
if head.id == 0 or head.id == 1 ...
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Check if at begin of a line
For a list of bullet-separated items, I want the separator to be swallowed if it is the first or last element of the line. That is, I want something like
\renewcommand{\and}{%
\ifnolinebreak% &...
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Ligature suppression with proper hyphenation and comprehensive word list?
[Update: It's been pointed out that my question(s) here weren't clear (or were too hidden). So I inserted red stars at the points where the questions appear.]
In The TeX Book, D.E.K. gives "shelfful" ...
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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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Optional but encouraged line break + \hfill
How would I write a macro (to be placed immediately before every URL in a bibliography) whose effect is to tell TeX
This is a good place to insert a line break, but breaking the line here is not ...
