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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How to find out if a break occurred at a manually inserted \discretionary?
How to find out if a break occurred at a manually inserted \discretionary?
I can't do it by assignments within the arguments of \discretionary—assignments are finished before decision about breaking ...
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Break url in bibliography citation
I found similar issues around, but none of them fitting to my situation.
I would like to be able to decide WHERE to break an url in my bibliography.
In the examples below, the automatic breaking is ...
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What exactly does \\ do in a tabular environment? How could I use obeylines to do it automatically?
I know that \\ is a very overloaded command in LaTeX, but what exactly does it do in the tabular environment?
Following my previous question, I have redefined the description environment, effectively ...
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Breaking a line
I usually break a line with \\. I have a piece of code:
\textbf{Headline}
\\
\\
\begin{tabular}{...}
...
\end{tabular}
The problem is Headline and Table get separated into different pages. What ...
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Add space after period when underfull hboxes occur?
Consider this MWE:
\documentclass[10pt,journal,compsoc]{IEEEtran}
\hyphenation{veryverylongword}
\begin{document}
\textbf{The word word word word word.} The word-veryverylongword word word word word.
\...
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Dotfill the left end of paragraph's first line to get right end of paragraph's last line to the margin?
In TeX or LaTeX can you dot-fill from the left end of the first line of a paragraph until the right end of the last line of the paragraph is at the right margin?
Instead of
word01 word02 word03 word04 ...
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Line breaking in hyperlinks in biblatex bibliography
I have a bibliography in which I included hyperlinks to the publication sites in the bibliography. Now I would like to include a line break within the hyperlink because the references are too long.
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hyphenate even when it creates overfull hboxes
Is there a way to force hyphenation even when it would generate overfull hboxes?
I read here (texfaq.org) that when tex can't find a resolution that doesn't overfill the line, it just gives up with a ...
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No line break in enumerate while using textcolor
Can someone explain why LaTeX is not inserting a line break ?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\sffamily
\textcolor{red}{webServiceURL}/\textcolor{red}{version}/devices/\...
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Avoid linebreak before cite
I often find myself typing
... see~\cite{reference}.
because I don't want my new lines to start with citations (I think it looks really bad).
But of course always inserting a ~ is a bit tedious, ...
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Creating tables with multiple rows and columns with lists and very long text
I am trying to create the following table with LaTeX:
I have tried using makecell, tabularx, and array packages. However, I can't create it. I can't make the table have a maximum width equal to \...
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Removing indent/newline before and after leftbar
Im writing a summary of my lectures and encountered a problem.
I would like to insert a vertical left bar near the important theorems I have to know.
What I found so far is the following:
\...
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Write on the line that has been returned
I can not solve a small problem, starting from this solution, I have done the table below but now I would like to write a word on each column with the type first and second in italics.
For example the ...
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Is there a hyperref-compatible package for DOIs allowing linebreaks?
I am aware of the packages url allowing to typeset hyperlinked URLs with sensible linebreaks, and of the package doi providing correct hyperlinks for Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). However, the ...
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Is it valid to use \mbox to make manual line breaks?
Based from the answers from this question, \\ should not be used to make line breaks. However, \mbox seems to do the same effect. Is this a valid way to make line breaks?
By the way, the 'line break' ...
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heading like format without starting a subsection, without warning
I want to realize this effect:
\textbf{Settings.}\\
\(z\)-axis states: \(\ket{\uparrow}, \ket{\downarrow}\).\\
However this code generates a warning Underfull \hbox. I also read that many people say ...
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How to break (long) equation latex?
when I'm almost at the end of the page and I insert a long equation (a few lines), Latex prefers to leave some white space at the end of the page, and writes the whole equation in the next page.
Is is ...
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Nested environments within tabbing
It seems as though using nested environments within a tabbing environment along with a new line causes a Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup error.
Here is a minimal working example:
\documentclass{...
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URL breaks due to hyphen
I am attaching url in references section, but the url breaks and goes to second line if theres a hyphen. How do i get the entire url in one line?
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How to prevent linebreaks in chapter title?
I have the following chapter title:
with the following code:
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]{}{\chaptername}{-2pt}{\Huge \bfseries} \titlespacing{\chapter}{186pt}{-120pt}{27pt}
I want to prevent this ...
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How to obtain a line break in an amsthm definition containing a citation?
Consider following MWE :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newtheorem{fruit}{Definition of a kind of fruit}
\begin{document}
Let's define some fruits. But first some text to reach till ...
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Cannot split content onto a newline in Texmaker
I want the "Since\ e \in \Sigma " part in the image on a new line. So far I have tried "\". "\newline " and "\linebreak" after the end of the first line but ...
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two lines in newcommand
I am working on a flowchart with the forest package. As I am using the same structur over and over again, I would like to define a new command. However I have some issues in getting a linebreak within ...
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How to add text at the start and end of each line?
I would like to add some text at the end of each line. For example, for the input
This is a long text that will be split by LaTeX into various lines.
I want to obtain
This is a long textX
Xthat will ...
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Drawing a very long commutative diagram
Here is the figure I wanna draw:
In the above figure, the lines are supposed to be either right arrows or down arrows.
Here is the code I am using (which did not work)
\documentclass{article}
%\...
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\texttt and breaking in justified paragraphs
When a monospace segment is used within an otherwise variable-width justified paragraph, very often the monospaced part is wrapped "one word too late", resulting in many lines being overfull ...
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Word hangs off the line after \ldots or \dots
I have run into a pproblem with \ldots.
Sometimes when it is close to the end of the line, and next word is next on the line, that world is not automatically hyphenated (or moved to next line), but ...
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sloppypar adds vertical spacing when next to equations
paragraph 1
\begin{equation*}
equation 1
\end{equation*}
paragraph 2
paragraph 3
\begin{equation*}
equation 2
\end{equation*}
paragraph 4
paragraph 5
There's an inline equation in paragraph ...
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How do I make a line stretch before line break?
I want to break before the equation to ensure it doesn't end up on two lines:
Words words words words words words words words words words words words words words
words words words words words words ...
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Fill a multiline form field with proper line wrap
A form that is meant to be printed and filled via handwriting provides a field for a multiline value that can be filled by long text. It is rendered like this:
+-----------------------------------+
| ...
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Unwanted line break with \raggedleft, \centering or \raggedright
In the following example, I get unwanted line breaks for text "Dest-Addr". The result is correct for text "Hello-World". The result is also correct if I change font size to 10pt or ...
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“Allow page break before the next line” inside lstlisting
I am trying to use the code from this answer to have precise control over where page breaks can occur inside listings. My problem is twofold: it seems I can't put the commands on their own line, and ...
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Breaking line in \email command
I'm trying to break a line in the \email command because there are a lot of authors on the work that I'm doing and, for some reason, I cannot.
Already tried to use \\, \hfill \break and \newline but ...
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How to add blank lines in Beamer - block
I am writing a presentation on Overleaf and using Beamer.
Example:
\begin{frame}{Title}
\begin{block}{Bloc title}
Line one
Line three
\end{block}
\end{frame}
However, I'm not able to add ...
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adjustbox doesn't allow line breaks in enumerate environment. How to fix that?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item \adjustbox{valign=t}{hello\\world}
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}
For a MWE. How to allow the line break as ...
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How to wrap text inside a vbox?
I am using Ruby's erb templates to generate a LaTeX file that is basically just images with captions (albeit I am not using the \caption environment, because it seems to break things). The code looks ...
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How to skip lines for tables
in my code I want the "if starts with a vowel" to be on one line, and the else in the line under. how do I do that without the Else being on the top line and the rest being on the other ...
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Forbidding line breaks after specific symbols in inline math?
I'm writing a text in which order relations (e.g. <, \prec, \ll) often appear as arguments of functions rather than binary operators (e.g. $O(P,<)$). Every so often this leads to an inline ...
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how to auto start a new line when text too long
Today I encount a problem, some words did not start a new line and out of the docs like this:
what should I do to make it start a new line automatic? This is my text:
结果发现有2条已经读取但是未处理的消息。...
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Discourage a line break after a certain CJK character with babel
When I set Chinese using babel and LuaLaTeX, I often find a line break inserted after ：“. This looks weird to me and I'd prefer the break to come after the ： and before the “.
Can I tweak some babel ...
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how to align Armenian text?
I want to align text written in Armenian, but using \justify command doesn't align it completely. There remain some lines which are not fully aligned. How can I fix this ?
Thank you
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How to write subscript on multiple lines in an align* environment?
I'm writing \max_{some very long subscript} = f(x) within an \begin{align*} \end{align*} environment. The subscript is very long, so I want to write it on multiple lines under max.
I looked into this ...
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Inline equations go off margin
My problem is that sometimes long inline equations go off the margin. For some of the equations, advice from a similar thread of using \raggedleft helped with most of the equations, but it does not ...
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Wordwrap text in small caps \textsc
I have several terms in small caps which include the character "/" such as:
\textsc{solarium/disapproved}
They are a part of regular text but sometimes when they appear at the end of the ...
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Line break in a NiceTabular environment in merged cells
I'm trying to create a table with NiceTabular, because I had some coloring problems with multicolumn/multirow.
The table looks already good except, that no linebreaks are done in \Block cells. In ...
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Is it possible to define atomic chunks of math which automatically do line breaks when necessary?
I'm writing a paper for a journal, which publishes in double column style, but the submitted manuscript has to be single-column. This means, I have to make sure that the formulas are properly ...
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lstlisting url broken by line wrapping
I have a URL which get's broken by the line break. Ideally I'd like it to be possible to copy the whole wget command and paste it into a terminal. Unfortunately I am ending with an overflowing box and ...
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How to add variable arguments to \newcommand inside \SetBreakableRel from the package rmathbr? (inline math-break with repetition)
rmathbr is a package enabling another convention of breaking inline equations if they run too long. Specifically, symbols are repeated on the new line (and kept on previous line). So, for instance, a =...
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Allow arbitrary linebreaks in \texttt formatted text
My document is a mixture of regular text and code, where I format the code with \texttt{}. To make this a little easier, I added a new command:
\newcommand {\ttt} {\texttt}
so now I just write, \ttt{...
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Strikethrough and line breaks
I need to use \sout{} from the ulem package for longer passages of text and in combination with other macros. However, this removes all linebreaks and the text is kept on a single line. Is there any ...
