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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Wrap Text in Table / Text Extends Past Page Margins
I would like to know who to wrap text in a table, and also to keep text from off the page of the document. Below is the code I have written so far.
I am trying to wrap the text under 'Relevant ...
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How to calculate “badness” for ragged right margins?
In TeXbook (p.30) it is said:
When \raggedright has been specified, badness reflects the amount of space at the right margin, instead of the spacing between words.
That is, in ragged-right case, ...
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Squeeze paragraph such that lines have similar width
I would like to format a paragraph of text such that the width of the paragraph shrinks until the last line in the paragraph is about the same width as all the others.
Here is an example of what I ...
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Underful \hbox in template
I like to use this template:https://www.latextemplates.com/template/journal-article
I am using it in Overleaf and it compiles however I am shown in the logs that the \hboxes seem to be underfull? ...
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longtable: won't linebreak while underlined or bold + multirow doesn't center vertically next to a figure
I am trying to create a landscaped longtable: there should be 2 rows with one containing a headline and the other an image, while a multirow is vertically centered next to the image and it's headline.
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How to get the same output as in TUGBoat article “Tracing paragraphs”?
Recently I began to read a very interesting TUGBoat article "Tracing paragraphs" by Udo Wermuth.
There is the example-1 from the article (with header and footer added by logic considerations):
\...
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Why adding \hsize0pt creates extra line?
Consider the following test:
\showboxbreadth=\maxdimen
\setbox0=\vbox{\hfuzz10000pt \hskip0pt a-b}
\showbox0
\setbox0=\vbox{\hsize0pt \hfuzz10000pt \hskip0pt a-b}
\showbox0
\end
The first \showbox ...
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Spacing of \newline and \\
Is there a way to set the spacing of the commands of \newline and \\ for the whole document? (I am aware that I shouldn't use them, unless it is really necessary.)
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Overfull message not yet clarified
I have found a shift in the left margin of my document signalled by the error message
Overfull \hbox (12.87598pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 56--57
The following is an extract from my document:
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Start line with `\eqref`
My collaborator highlighted all lines starting with an eqref and asked me to avoid this by placing a ~ between the reference and the preceding word. For example, he suggested replacing it follows from ...
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Inline DeclareTotalTCBox Using tColorBox
My goal is to have inline code embedded in text using \DeclareTotalTCBox. The problem is that the box is not breakable (even though I used the breakable option). I looked at the manual (v 4.20) page ...
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How to enable in-word breaking without a hyphen? [duplicate]
Consider the following ridiculous example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
\end{...
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Multicol doesn't break formulas
When trying to create a 3-column document (with tight-spaced page paddings), the text is in place, however, the formulas are not adapted to the column width:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,landscape]{...
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Geometry affects line breaking
This one has me stumped. The idea is to pack boxes (in this case, \rule) together tightly while allowing them to break at the end of a line. It works without geometry, but not with.
Another package ...
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How to hyphenate in a \synt{} with the syntax package?
Consider the following example:
\documentclass[draft]{article}
\usepackage{syntax}
\begin{document}
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
\synt{blahblah-blahblah} blah.
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\right not working in beamer [duplicate]
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{graphics}
\mode<presentation> {
\usepackage{breqn}
\usetheme{Frankfurt}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{align*}
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text not aligned on the right in article
I'm writing in article mode and some lines in certain paragraphs stick out on the right. I read online that LaTeX by default aligns text on both left and right - but it doesn't seem to be the case? ...
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Drawing a horizontal \rule through the middle of a line
How can I do something like \noindent\rule{\linewidth}{0.25mm}
but in a way that doesn't leave a big gap before it?
Currently it's kind of like \bottomrule, almost as if it skips a line. I want it to ...
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Can I teach \censor to break on lines?
This is similar to Censor text spanning multiple lines, but I'd like to keep using the censor package if possible. Its \StopCensoring/ \RestartCensoring macros and actual style of censoring (big ole' ...
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Tikz \foreach to work with the aligned environment
I am trying to use the \foreach command to create something with the same effect as:
\begin{align*}
1 \\
2
\end{align*}
The following code fails to work:
\begin{align*}
\foreach \x in {1,2} ...
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CV with timeline
Here you can find a latex template for Cvs. https://www.overleaf.com/articles/satish-kumars-cv/dngwrghdxxqh.
I am facing an issue with the timeline environment. The code follows:
\newcounter{...
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How to make word breaking work, and have a straight line on the right?
I am new to Latex, I apologize for the very basic question in advance.
I just cannot make Latex breake the words correctly, or adjust the spacement of words properly so that I have a straight line at ...
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Break long word (not long text!) in longtable cell
How to break VERY long word in latex? For example:
\begin{center}
\begin{longtable}{|p{8cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}|}
\hline
1 & 2 & 3 \\ \hline
...
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Line break in starred ntheorem header
I came across this question that was posted before and have been using the solution for a while. However, I can't seem to get the same thing to work with starred environments.
I am aware that long ...
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Bibliography is out of the border
I have one reference with long url. It goes from abroad. The bibliography style is IEEEtran.
This is the code for it
\bibliographystyle{./IEEEtran}
\bibliography{./IEEEabrv,./IEEEexample}
...
@...
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Linebreak in multicolumn cell using tabularx environment
I have the following sidewaystable, in which the headers and the last cell need to be across two columns with line breaks, else the table is not readable. The "specs" columns are just necessary in the ...
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Ligatures and line breaks in OT2
I am trying to write a paper in Cyrillic using OT2, but the ligatures (nj-њ, lj-љ, dj-ђ) get broken in line breaks. Here's an example:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[...
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Purpose of the optional argument of \linebreak[] [duplicate]
What is the purpose of the optional argument of \linebreak? What is the difference between \linebreak and \linebreak[1]?
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
test\linebreak test
test\...
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How to influence line breaks in lstlistings?
Latex breaks lines at odd positions in code listings, for example, before a comma or after opening quotation marks. Is there any way to influence the line breaking strategy or to suggest where a line ...
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How to put texts on a newline in an algorithm (in a nested for-loop)?
I am making an algorithm with a nested for loop, and there are multiple in the loop. They are presented on the same line, but I want them to start on a newline. Any ideas how I can do this?
This is ...
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Line Break in \url in the footnote
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URL linebreak in footnote
Line breaking of URLs at "-"
I tried it by myself but it doesn't work oon my Tex-File.
I added this in my Code for the url-...
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Avoid breaking inline math insertions [duplicate]
It is not a good idea to break mathematical insertions in text.
It happens in this example:
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
dfasfsd asdfsdafds asdfsdfds gdsds sfsdd ssfsd wwer sfdsf ggfh dh ...
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How to stack frameboxes one next to another filling all available horizontal space
I'm writting a "cheat sheet" where I put a bunch of formulas and ideas inside frameboxes, stacked one after another.
The issue is that paragraph indentation, the framebox separator and the framebox ...
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Beamer: Onslides messes up tcbraster
I have issues with my beamer presentation: I want to have 3 boxes next to each other, they should first appear all at the same time and then I would specify when the boxes should appear. Without \...
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newline begins with dash
Consider this example:
\documentclass{report}
%\hyphenation{ENCODE}
\begin{document}
All data used for this study are analysed with a different release of ENCODE \textendash\ the collection of ...
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Break line of long header with pagestyle fancy
I have a class where I define headers and footers with a makemargins command:
\newcommand{\makemargins}{
\makenomenclature
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyheadoffset{1cm}
\setlength{\headheight}{2cm}
\lhead{\...
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protect hyphenated word from breaking
Consider this example:
\documentclass{report}
\begin{document}
bbbb bbbb bbbb ddf hdfhdf hdfhfd hdfhdf ddfgdfg dgdfg ert we Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix is equal to 1
\end{document}
The output ...
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Dropping separator at line break in an inline list
I have created a new inline list style with enumitem that has no bullets and separates each item with a middle dot:
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\middot}{~\textperiodcentered~}
\usepackage[...
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Allow words containing forwards slashes to be broken over lines at the point where the forward slash occurs
Does anyone know how to use the hyphenat package in pdflatex to create an automatic hyphenation rule whereby forwards slashes may be used to break words over lines, or as hyphenation points? I've read ...
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how do i get an empty line in my flashcard
\documentclass[frontgrid,backgrid,a4paper,11pt]{flacards}
\usepackage{etoolbox}<br>
\pretocmd{\card}{\def\curhint{#1}}{}{}<br>
\pagesetup{2}{4}
\usepackage{xeCJK}<br>
% \...
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How to retain actual input newline/end-of-line (hex 0x0a) in macro definition
I am using filecontents package and want to include it in a macro in order to factorize some complex processing.
The problem is that \begin{filecontents} needs be followed by nothing except spaces and ...
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How can I hyphenate words with dots in a \texttt environment in LaTeX?
There is a bunch of discussions online how to enable (or disable) hyphenation in \texttt environments. I found both the options
\usepackage[htt]{hyphenat}
and
\DeclareTextFontCommand{\mytexttt}{\...
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Do line breaks help synctex at indexing?
Do line breaks help synctex?
Does it for example help to add hard line breaks after 80 characters instead of writing a paragraph per line?
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Get little endian paragraph title shape
As you can see in the MWE, I customize the chapter titles to be displayed in the center of the page with:
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\huge\bfseries\centering}{\...
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Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph in bbl bibliography
Just after the word resonance it is getting the above error. underfull. I have tried using \smallskip \bigskip but it does not work. In texstudio the author name until the word resonance in one line. ...
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Problem with Big Curly Brackets in Overleaf
I am trying to make open a big curly bracket with 3 rows and 2 columns in it. This will be used in a Conference Paper that has 2 columns per page, so logically the wideness of each column is ...
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New lines after \ in lstlisting
I have very simple bash listing
\begin{lstlisting}
$ docker create --name my-nginx \
--network host \
--publish 8080:80 \
nginx:latest
\end{lstlisting}
It looks fine in PDF, but once I try to ...
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How to break the lines within the list of figures - endfloat package
I am using the package endfloat to provide the tables, the figures and the list of figures at the end of my document.
Unfortunately, the figures' captions are longer that just one line, but the ...
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Figure captions line breaks
So I'm working on a TeX document and everything's fine until at some point I realize the captions are doing something weird: whenever the caption spans over multiple lines the new lines start after ...
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Unwanted Line Break after product symbol
I wrote an equation with 3 products involved and it doesn't seem that they want to be written in one line (pic related). My code looks like this:
\begin{center}
$\psi$ =
$$\prod_{i=1}^{x}$$ $\...
