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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Why isn't every space between words a feasible breakpoint?
p98 of the TeXbook gives a paragraph trace beginning:
[]\tenrm Mr. Drofnats---or ‘‘R. J.,’’ as he pre-
@\discretionary via @@0 b=0 p=50 d=2600
@@1: line 1.2- t=2600 -> @@0
ferred to be called---was ...
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How do I break the text in a table-cell? [duplicate]
I am using Tufte book. For the table below, I want to add a line break in the first column. I want "Nr. of transactions" to be in one line and "pre-processing" on the second line. ...
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Split a huge matrix across lines to fit on page
I'm writing my thesis and running into the following problem. I have a huge matrix (10 rows and 15 columns) which doesn't fit on a page. I would like LaTeX to split the matrix across lines, but right ...
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Automatic line breaking of boxes
I want to automate some things in LaTeX using loops and saveboxes, but the boxes don't want to go automatically to the next line when there is no space for them (saveboxes are necessary). The code ...
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Indentation in Beamer Frametitle [duplicate]
I'm coming here looking for help because I've tried in every way to correct the error in the attached figure. When dealing with a long title, the second line suffers an unnecessary indentation. I ...
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Why does LaTeX neither break at nor hyphenate after a "user kern"?
When using the \kern command for user-defined kerns or the \, shorthand for small non-breaking spaces, this expands to a "userkern" node. At such nodes LaTeX doesn't break the line and the ...
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Specifying a Second Line Indentation When addtocontents Entries are Long
This post asks a more general question than Formatting the Display of Multi-Lined addtocontents Entries.
Consider:
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\Large
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect {\textbf{I....
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Formatting the Display of Multi-Lined addtocontents Entries
In the following MWE
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}\large
\addtocontents{toc}{\vskip 10pt}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect {III. The words of this sentence are quite a few; I would like the ...
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Using seqsplit and truncate together
I have a table in tabularx, and I need to put an url into one of the columns. The best and probably easiest solution for me would be to use:
\truncate{200pt}{url}
from the truncate package, which ...
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Quotation marks jump in next line
I'm writing a text and I'm using quotation marks as follows:
We will do as in the work $\glqq$ some text$\grqq$.
Now "$\grqq$" is jumping to the next line. Can I avoid this somehow?
Thanks!
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Beamer: extra blank line between display math and enumerate
I use the beamer class. If display math followed by some enumerate environment, beamer will insert an extra blank line between them.
The following is the codes.
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
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LaTeX sporadically replaces dashes with $\Gamma$ when making linebreaks
I'm working on a large report and have noticed that the output pdf often contains $\Gamma$ at the end of lines, when there should be `-' instead. However this is not consistently the case, as you can ...
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line height varies with wrapping text
I was trying to create a new title page for uni project.
For that I took an online template and changed the text.
The problem now is, that the title wraps and has different line height in some lines.
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How to force line break in normal paragraph
Sometimes the paragraph will not break properly with no blank codes. How to set break automatically?
Here is example code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Like this, the code without ...
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How to break long text in black box in tcolorbox?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\tcbset{
boxsep=4pt, left=0pt,right=0pt,top=0pt,bottom=0pt,
colframe=white,colback=black,
highlight math style={enhanced}
}
\begin{...
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How to break words at the end of line in text and quotes
I would like LaTex to break words (where needed) at the end of a line - both in the main text and in quotes.
Having gone through similar questions, it sounds like LaTex normally does this ...
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Markdown -> Latex -> PDF: md inline code snippets going out of page bounds
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I have a bunch of changelog.md files for our software that use backticks for inline code. I pull them as part of the documentation build process and compile a PDF with latex. Latex seems ...
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Bug in Line Breaks?
A certain line I have written seems to never want to break on the pair of words "on groups", unless I forcibly add \linebreak. I demonstrate this in the following picture, which uses ~ to ...
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Line-breaking with underscores in longtable
I have the following code:
\begin{landscape}
\setlength\tabcolsep{3pt}
\begin{longtable}{m{0.5cm}|m{3cm}|m{3cm}|m{3cm}|m{9cm}}
\hline
\textbf{C1}&\textbf{Col2}&\textbf{Col3}&\textbf{Col4}&...
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How do I stop latex from breaking up words at line breaks? [duplicate]
For example, latex breaks "signaling" into
signal-
ing
at the line breaks, in order to keep the width of text uniform, I believe. How do I stop this and have complete words?
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What's the best way to deal with large pieces of text like keywords, camel cased words, namespaces, etc [duplicate]
I'm writing a text which has a lot of long Redis keys and camel cased text (like class names). This could be extended to long keywords and namespaces too. I want to accentuate these in way, so I'm ...
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Line breaks in booktabs?
How do I fit such a table on a page (so that it's not too wide)? I guess I'd like to have a line break in the name of every column and also line breaks in each cell of the entire first column. How do ...
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LaTeX Demerit When One Line Ends With Comma and the Next Ends with Apostrophe
I know LaTeX has a demerit when two consecutive lines end in discretionary hyphens (\doublehyphendemerits), and I was wondering if there is a way to set a demerit or penalty for ending one line with a ...
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Displaying a Numbered Math Expression Without Creating a New Line
I want to display a numbered math expression without creating a new line. Example:
\textbf{Claim}:
\begin{equation}\label{fpreservesorder}
m,n\in{}\mathbb{Z}\,\,\,\wedge{}\,\,\,...
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Forcing a new line in math typing - LYX
When writing a long math sentence, the writing goes beyond the end of the page:
When all I write in the file is:
Is there an easy way to force a new line without actually go to a new line? Or a way ...
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Listing background color is overflowing margins on broken lines
I'm using the code on Listing, zebra effect and broken lines as a base. However, when lines are indented by either spaces or tabs the margins of the listing are not respected and the background color ...
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How to suppress a new line when using multline within enumerate?
I am using enumerate with some long equations. I am breaking the equations into multiple lines using \multline. Example:
\begin{enumerate}
\item \begin{multline*} m_1,m_2>0\implies{}f(m_1+m_2)= \...
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Text keeps compressing or expanding when splitting text with ```\\\\```
I highly doubt that this question hasn't been asked before, but I haven't managed to use the right search words to find it.
In case it matters I'm writing in Overleaf and use \documentclass{article}.
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How to prevent longtable from tearing apart my text weirdly?
I have the problem, that as a german speaking person, words get rather long. Even with hyphenation tables usually gets torn apart. Is there an option to still have the automatic line-break options ...
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Breaking lines of TikZ pictures
Doing a lot of pictures sequentially with TikZ, I would like a break line behavior, resulting in more uniform lines. But I couldn't.
\input{tikz}
\def\maxangle{30}
\pgfmathsetseed{7}
\foreach \...
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Increasing the Gap Produced by \Linebreak within a Small Caps Title
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\large
\begin{center}
{\scshape{H O W \, T O \, I N C R E A S E \, T H E \, S P A C E\...
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Linebreak spacing for saved string
I have a string called \subtitle, and that string comes up at multiple locations.
This string contains a linebreak, so that it shows up better at the front page.
I define this string in main.tex
\...
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Skip line without commands in Latex
I would like to know if it is possible to change a line with just a normal skip with "enter" in latex. For example I want the document to recognize a normal line skip with enter as a new ...
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What's the cleanest way to set \emergencystretch only for one list item?
Feeding pdflatex with
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage[USenglish,latin]{babel}
\babelprovide[hyphenrules=nohyphenation]{latin}
\usepackage{enumitem}%%% the same problem occurrs ...
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How to avoid runts? [duplicate]
Sometimes, a paragraph will end in a short word that appears all by itself on the last line. I believe that such words are called runts in typography. Other times, a longer word is broken and only one ...
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Prevent line breaks before short math expressions globally
Is there a way to globally prevent line breaks before math expression that are a single letter ?
For example, in a document I have
\begin{lemma}
An edge $\lambda_{xy}$ is identifiable in a tree graph $...
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Square brackets throw an error while parentheses don't [duplicate]
Why does the following work
\documentclass[answers]{exam}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\Large\textbf{
\shortstack{
Assignment 1
\...
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How to prevent word wrap and new lines in table cells?
I have a xltabular table which is filled via script with data, so I don't really know what length the text has that is put into the table cells. Is there a function or method which can just cut off ...
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Changes package, no linebreak of long inline comment in other command
I am using changes package to detect the changes of the draft. However, if I put a long inline comment as an option for other commands like highlight or replaced, the linebreak does not occur.
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Justify long words
How can I justify text like this by for example automatic hyphenation? (which does not affect the rest of the text? If I use \linebreak it will go to the next line but not justify the prior text.
I ...
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Line not breaking when combining inline math and \texttt
Sadly, I am not able to recreate a MWE since I'm working on a fairly complex template. I cannot understand how LaTeX decides to break lines, I googled but I couldn't find a clear cut answer. This is ...
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Very long string is getting overflown in the pdf
I am very new to latex/ .tex files. Need some help here please.
I am creating a PDF file with some information and in the end of the file there is a placeholder called signature. Signature is a very ...
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\par within \addcontentsline breaks list of frames
This answer provides the indispensable feature to add a list of frames to a beamer presentation.
It containts the the line
\addcontentsline{lbf}{section}{\protect\makebox[2em][l]{%
\protect\...
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Pandoc / Eisvogel template : code blocks in MarkDown with very long lines get cut off when outputting to PDF
here is my problem :
I have this code in a code block in my markdown file :
$ ./test ...
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How to add a newline inside \overset?
Example:
$abc \overset{a=1,b=2,c=3}{=} c!$
I'm trying to figure out how to add newlines instead of commas between a=1 and b=2 and b=2 and c=3.
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How to determine vertical position of paragraph
I'd like to determine approximately how far down the page TeX's paragraph builder (i.e., tex.linebreak(...) in LuaTex) is when it starts. For example, in \begin{document}A\par B\end{document} when the ...
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How to underline text from a macro including a line break?
I'm trying to underline text that spans over more than one line. In principle, the ulem oder the soul package can do the trick when inputting the text directly to the respective command.
\ul{some text ...
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Auto-replacing words with shorter variants to prevent hanging words
Is there a way to tell latex that certain words can be replaced by a shorter variant if it will prevent a hanging word:
eg:
this line wraps to a second
line.
change "second" to "2nd&...
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Move whole inline math to new line if it is too long
I have big tex document that was created for a4 paper, I wanted to change a4 to a5. After doing so, latex rendered some inline math in kinda awkward way:
Something something x + y + z =
f(x).
I would ...
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Unexpected line break before makebox with expl3 syntax
I want to type some texts as the following.
some text:____underline_text_______
I hope the total length of the above texts could be some given length. The length of the underline part depends on the ...
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