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 split a long set
I have this MWE where there are two long set
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\begin{document}
Supponiamo che l'insieme sia $A=\{a,b,c\}$. L'insieme delle parti di $...
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Breaking Long Radical Over Multiple Lines
I need help making this monstrosity look presentable:
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{float}
\...
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First tag of nested description environment with newline style wont appear on new line
I have the next document:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[english, ukrainian]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setdescription{style=...
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How do I highlight text or formulas?
I want to highlight newlined sentences and formulas. The following code will allow me to highlight newlined sentences, but I get an error if they contain quotations (\cite) or formulas (\begin{...
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I'm having a problem with sentences breaking when writing input and output in a latex algorithm
In my algorithm, I wrote input and output as follows.
\begin{algorithm}[htb!]
\caption{Data Preprocessing}
\label{alg:data_preprocessing}
\textbf{Input} input data \\
\textbf{...
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How to correctly separate paragraphs with a blank line
I want to end a paragraph with a blank line and start a new paragraph.
When I use
first paragraph\\
second paragraph
I get an underfull hbox error.
When I use
first paragraph\par
second paragraph
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Long url doesn’t break in theorem optional argument (under amsthm, hyperref, xurl)
In most situations, the xurl package (presented here) ensures that long urls break across lines appropriately. However, inside the optional “caption” argument of a theorem, long urls stay unbroken, as ...
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How to force a line break right after the name of the proof environment?
I'm not experienced with LaTeX and so I couldn't really judge if this is a trivial fix.
I want to have a proof-statement on it's own line.
Currently, things get displayed like this:
Beweis. G1 (a ∗ b) ...
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Changing \autocite format to include page number
absolute Latex beginner here with a question: I changed the \autocite command to add in-text citation in the following format: (Author year: [page number]) (for example: (Dylan 1967: 5)).
I used the ...
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Is it possible to programmatically add line breaks inside \makecell?
I've found myself in a situation where I need to dynamically add a list of strings inside a tabular cell in multiple instances, each string in their own line. To tackle this, I tried to go with the ...
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Cannot fit align environment into page even with multiline* or \resizebox
I have the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\title{latex debugs}
\author{Naitik Mundra}
\date{September 2023}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
& E(a, b)-E\...
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Prevent Overfull \hbox
I am new to LaTeX. Recently I have taken it up to do some math note taking on my laptop.
I have found a template which seems quite useful for this. Nonetheless, after some time spent doing the set up, ...
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How to stop long words with "+" in them from going into the margins?
I have a long word with plus signs in it (e.g. This+Is+A+Long+Word) that often ends up going into the margins of my page. Both \sloppy and \emergencystretch 3em fix this issue, but they also add a lot ...
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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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Individually indent wrapped lines of lines broken with \\
I have long lines like this:
Saint Gabriel, who didst foretell to Zachary the birth and ministry of John the Baptist, \\
Saint Gabriel, who didst announce to Blessed Mary the Incarnation of the Divine ...
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Modified Bourbaki problem
The expex package has a nice macro \trailingcitation which typesets a citation at the right margin of the same line if there is space, or flushed right on the line if there is no space (first two ...
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How to adjust the text within table
I am creating a table with long text separable by comma; I have defined the text width for 2nd column as 11 cm. Now, I want to present the text in the aligned form, but it does not result as expected. ...
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One line doesn't respect right margin
What could be causing one single line of this text not being aligned to the right (first line of third paragraph)?
\documentclass[11pt, twoside]{article}
\usepackage[headsep=14pt, paperwidth=14cm, ...
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Splitting labels on multiple lines not working for .dot file used in an Overleaf document
I would like to split a label in a .dot file across multiple lines in Overleaf.
I reviewed this which suggests various forms of \n which doesn't seem to work.
Here's a minimal example:
\documentclass{...
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Gap inside parshap in one line
General overview
I try to put a custom lettrine with \parshape command and I get the following rendering:
The problem
But, the hand of the goddess Hator fall under the baseline of the N wile the text ...
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Custom line breaks in maketitle with authblk
I am trying to modify the output of the affiliations defined with authblk to print each entry on consecutive lines, and when the text width is exceeded break the line at the symbol separating the ...
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Prevent LaTeX listings from line breaking before comas and dots
I have a PostgreSQL script that I insert in article using the listings package and I constantly run into two problems trying to format the style of the code: Line breaks before dots and comas or ...
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How to add a new line in item list
If an \item (in \begin{enumerate) contains a long line, I need to add a linebreak so the rest goes to another line (but with the same enumeration number). In the following code, I add \allowbreak in ...
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Preventing text lines to end with a grammatical article (or with short words)
I am revising a paper before submitting it, and I realized I really dislike when a line ends with an article, and the "articled" word follows on the next line. I found no strict rule for ...
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Manually breaking URL in bibliography adds ASCII characters [duplicate]
I'm trying to break a URL in the bibliography. I used \\, thinking that it would solve the problem but while it broke the URL it also added the ASCII code for \.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{...
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Prevent the line feed on the multiple-line minted code at the footnote
When I add a multiple-line minted code at the footnote, the minted code block is (automatically) line fed. See the image below.
I'd like to print the code at the same line as the footnote mark. How to ...
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Breaking equation with LuaLaTeX
The following code works as expected. It breaks mathematics expression in multi-lines.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{breqn}
\begin{document}
\begin{dmath*}
f(1.02) + f (1.06) + f (1.1) + f (1....
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Removing trailing newline in custom environment
I am relying on the output of a 3rd party tool which I cannot really
modify at the moment. It generates a soup of commands corresponding
to a semantically annotated translation of some source code.
By ...
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How can I do automatic line breaks in LaTeX math mode?
i have a Latex document with some very long equatations inside an align* element. They overflow the page width. My question is: How can I tell Latex to automatically insert linebreaks when the lines ...
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How to automatically wrap lines in scriptio continua
How to wrap lines automatically for scriptio continua (contexts in which there are no devices whereby to separate distinct words)? I am using XeLaTeX.
For example, the following code does not produce ...
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How to insert vertical material in a paragraph
What is the proper way to insert some vertical material inside a paragraph? Like what quote or display math do.
I want to have a parbox or a minipage inserted at a given point of my paragraph ...
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Making a line break in the table header breaks tabularray?
As the title suggests, I'm trying to achieve a linebreak in the first table between Endkonzentration \\ N-Acetylcystein but it ends up making the table look weird, giving me a LaTeX Error: Something's ...
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Line break between the number and the exponent
In the Latex source I have the following text
$q_\text{v} = \SI{2.26e6}{\J\per\kg}$
and the line break happens right between the number and the exponent as
... qv = 2.26 ×
106 J/kg...
Is there any ...
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Overfull hbox too wide (how to break lines)?
I'm trying to list examples of weak compositions of 4, and my code looks like the following:
Weak compositions of $4$ into three parts are: \[(4,0,0), (0,4,0),(0,0,4),(3,1,0),(3,0,1),(0,1,3)\linebreak(...
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Automatically choose between different options depending on which one produces the least badness
Is there a way in TeX (preferably plain XeTeX, but other engines are fine) to automatically choose between different options (e.g. between "and" and "&") so that the badness of ...
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Content is going outside of the margin
I'm trying to add sample content to my document, but it seems like whenever I use \texttt or \lstinline tags my content still goes out of the margin. Is there any suggestions ?
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add line break to the label in Tikz
How can I add line break to the label (description) of diagram in Tikz?
This is my code:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix,decorations.pathreplacing,arrows.meta,...
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In "informs3" cls, why theorem caption enable break line?
In "informs3" cls, why does the theorem caption enable break line?
template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-manufacturing-and-service-operations-management/...
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Is there a way to use \nopagebreak globally, between two or more known words?
I'm looking for a way to define a couple of well-known word pairs that should never be split between pages, even if that means leaving a slightly awkward blank space at the end of the paragraph. I ...
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How to customize a tikzcd figure
I generated the following tikzcd diagram:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt, twoside]{report}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}
\usepackage{tipa}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzcd}
& ...
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Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 17--18
Throughout my document, I constantly have problems with the text spreading out when there is no real reason for it. I have tried to look up how to solve it but nothing seems to work for me. I am ...
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Force text on last line of page when there is a table on next page [closed]
I am writing a document in overleaf (latex). I have a 2-column paper. There is a table inserted on the next page. The problem is that the last line on the previous page before the table is a blank ...
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tcolorbox hyphens words instead of breaking lines
Facing the same problem described here, I noticed that when there are paragraphs inside the tcolorbox, insertion of line breaks is not so clever. Here there is unused space on the sides:
On the 2nd ...
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How to set inference rules next to each other in semantic?
Feeding
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{semantic}
\begin{document}
\setpremisesend{0pt}\setnamespace{0pt}%
\inference{A_1\\A_2&A_3}{C_1}
\quad
\inference{A_4\\A_5&...
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Force text onto new page
I have two tables and text. I would like to have the text start on a new page:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[!ht]
\centering
\caption{Decomposition Level 6}
\...
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amsmath & formatting problem: equation over-runs solution box
In this math exercise solution set, the solution over-runs the solution box. Here's the current rendering:
There should be a line break immediately following the =. I can't achieve this with either \\...
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Why doesn't \textit work over multiple lines in tabbing?
If I have text in italics over two lines in the environment tabbing, only the first line is italic and the second line is upright. Also, the compilation has errors. Why is that? How can I make \textit ...
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Splitting fraction numerator into several lines
I need to write a fraction for which I can break the numerator into several (not just two) lines. I tried several solutions and none have works. On Overleaf, most just stop the document from compiling....
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How to include a long list of authors in the ACL template?
I'm working on a paper that has ~15 set of authors that is written in Latex using the ACL template. I can't seem to find a way to fit the author affiliations into the space and at the sometime ...
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Automatically break a very long line, shown with monospaced font (code-like display)?
I have seen but there is no answer there ...
I would like to show a very long line, composed of only digits and comma, as code in Latex - and have Latex automatically break it, as I do not want to ...
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