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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Line break with longtable and multicolumn
I am trying to write up the following table.
However, I cannot get a line break to work (needed for Branches and Results column's) and as such the table runs off the side of the page. My attempt is ...
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Auto line break with very long word within table
I am trying to break a very very long number, 128 in length, to fit into a table cell so it won't go over the page.
I've looked up methods using longtabu, tabular with p{5cm} commend, \makecell, \...
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remove automatic spacing to fill row
I'm writing my thesis, but I have a problem that I can not solve.
Latex when there are few words in a stripe, adds spaces to completely fill the line.
How can I remove the spaces to fill the line?
NB:...
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Section title running into margin
In the below MWE one can see that the section title runs into the margin of the page. This is due to the use of the \mbox{...}, but the \mbox is unfortunately in the normal case, automatically ...
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Word wrap 64 character hexadecimal strings in verbatim JSON
I'd like to document example requests/replies in our protocol per How to write narrative documentation. We're using the texlive-latex-base on Ubuntu for our documentation, and I'm linting with lacheck ...
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Problem with my understanding of expandafter and newcommand with arguments and sout
I've tried for days to get my head around the expansion of code. Sadly, I don't get it.
I try to pass a command with arguments as an argument to sout.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ulem,lipsum}...
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Line break without page break using `poetry` package
The poetry package overrides \\*, which means that I can't use that to prevent page breaks in the middle of a stanza. Is there another way to create a line break while forbidding a page break at the ...
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Editor breaks line within lstlisting
I'm using an editor that breaks lines after a line length of 80 characters. Whenever I use a long lstinline at the end of a line and the editor continues in a new line I get the error message Package ...
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New lines in hyperref argument
I was wondering if there is a way to make hyperref behave nicely when its argument spans more than one line. Here's a MWE of what I mean.
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{amsmath, hyperref}
\begin{...
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Line breaks in theorem heads are removed by showkeys package
There are a couple of other questions [1|2] about theorem heads not wrapping properly. I've run across another situation where this happens:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{...
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Change default value of the optional argument of \\, also in tikz nodes
I use a lot of \\ in my beamer presentations to force line breaks at nice places, and more often than not, I use \\[5pt] instead of the default value (which feels too cramped).
Some trial and error ...
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centering caption not working
I'm using this to insert a new line inside of my caption
\caption[caption]{This is the caption\\\hspace{\textwidth}This is the second line}
When I try to use the
\captionsetup{justification=...
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The output of formulas in the latex format with two columns style
I am writing a paper for a springier journal. The latex style of this journal is based on the two columns format.
I have some equations in my paper and I want to write these equations in
paragraphs ...
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line break in subfigure caption with proper “hang” alignment
I want to insert a manual line break in the subfigures captions. I have achieved this with either \protect\\ or \newline. However, the second lines do not align properly. I want them to start at the ...
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Linebreak composed term with Registered sign and slash
Consider this example:
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\newcommand{\smlnk}{Simulink\textsuperscript{\textregistered}}%
\newcommand{\mtlb}{MATLAB\textsuperscript{\textregistered}}%
\newcommand{\...
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Is there a way to insert paragraph breaks inside of \texttt block?
The following source code compiles just fine:
\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
\texttt{
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Lorem Lorem
}
\end{document}
However, the following ...
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Listings Package causes normal text to hyphenate at forward slashes
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII hardware/software
\end{document}
This results in this ...
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Overfull hbox within an R output
I'm using Sweave to work with R in a LaTeX document and when I compile my script I get the following badbox, as showed in the log file:
Overfull \hbox (14.62822pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 127--...
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reledmac: skip newline in eledsection
I am trying to skip the newline in a \eledsection but both \usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[runin]{}{}{}{}[] and \RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=-.5\baselineskip,afterskip=-1em]{...
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How can we conditionally insert a line-break at the beginning of some text?
The Short Story
If some text won't all fit on the current line, we want all of that text moved to the next line instead. How can we do this?
The Medium-Length Story
Suppose we have a string of text,...
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How sticky or non-sticky is \nolinebreak?
If you already know what sticky and non-sticky commands are, skip down to the header REAL QUESTION
A sticky command remains in effect until you explicitly turn it off.
For example, $ to enter math ...
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What can you pass as arguments to `\nolinebreak` and what affect do they have?
I would like to know what happens in terms of what the output document looks like. Some example strings would be nice, and a description of what happens to the string in the exported pdf. A ...
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Where can I find documentation for the \nolinebreak command?
Where can I find documentation on how to use the \nolinebreak command?
The Guide to LaTeX2e for Authors at latex-project.org never makes mention of \nolinebreak
The source code guide states that \...
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Line breaks not appearing in optimal location
For some reason, despite using the microtype package, I cannot fix some overfilling in a paragraph, as can be seen in the image below.
I would prefer a line break immediately after the open bracket ...
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What is the cleanest way to ensure that a string all appears on the same line, unless it is too long?
In the following text we want all instances of "BACON" to appear on the same line.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, BACON BACON BACON BACON. Mauris sit amet
laoreet ante.
That is, we want to ...
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How to display horizontally aligned images with caption?
I'm looking for an advice how to display high amount of images horizontally aligned with caption:
there are hundreds or even thousands images in the gallery
dimensions of images are unknown, their ...
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~/cite : Is the Tie Actully Recommended? [duplicate]
When making citations, I've seen both styles: with the tie/non-breaking space (~\cite{refnm}) and without it (\cite{refnm}). There are a few questions & answers on this topic in the more general ...
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How to automatically leave lines for translation
I would like to enter a paragraph within a command and, each time it would go onto a new line, leave space and horizontal lines for translation. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this ...
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'Uneven' breaks in long URLs (\url)
I'm struggling with hyphenation of long URLs (using command \url{}).
Line breaking works fine in cases when URL is just part of line which doesn't fit to text area width. That means URL is hyphenated ...
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How do I get indentation after automatic line break?
Some lines are too long to fit in its column and gets split into two.
But to make it clear that it still one line, like in a song, I'd to have an indentation after the automatic line break.
\...
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Too long line in Bibliography, not URL, line break needed
I'm trying to solve this problem. The first reference has a strange "page number". Unfortunately, it protrudes beyond the edge of the page. I would rather have a page break happen before that. All ...
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Unwanted line break after beginning of solution environment in exam class
Question update: Ulrich's answer (and its iterations) largely achieves the desired behavior:
An answer environment (ans is the answer environment in the new MWE provided below) where the end is ...
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BibLaTeX long URL extending into border despite using biburllcpenalty
MWE:
test.tex:
% !TeX program = xelatex
\documentclass[paper=A4,fontsize=12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[left=3cm, right=3cm, bottom=3cm, top=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[backend=...
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I have an override for \texttt to prevent line breaks and add a box, but it still breaking up the word
I have the following override:
% override the inline code styling to show a gray highlight box
\let\oldTexttt\texttt
\renewcommand{\texttt}[1]{%
\begin{RaggedRight}%
\sethlcolor{codegray}%
\...
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Auto Detect Last Paragraph and Pass to Macro
The MWE below produces the desired results:
via the \ProcessLastPara{} which applies a desired \parshape to the given (last) paragraph.
Questions:
The MWE below required me to manually identify ...
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Listings does not break at pure hyphen lines
I have the issue, that I need listings package to break at a hyphen (-). I will give a MWE below.
According to https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/140725/7166 the hyphen is a character of type "other", ...
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Don't replace new line with space
Is there a way to prevent TeX from replacing new lines with spaces?
This
example
text
second
example
text
results in this
but what I want this
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Correct line breaking for Japanese using Babel
MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\usepackage[japanese]{babel}
\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{japanese}
日本語をををををををををををををををををををををををををををかいぎょうします。
\end{document}
In some ...
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Inline list: How to insert a non-stretching but line-breaking thin space?
This is a follow-up to How to insert a non-stretching but line-breaking thin space?, but in reference to an inline list. The MWE below attempts to use each of the solutions mentioned there, but the ...
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lettrines, explicit linebreaks and hanging indents
I need to combine lettrines, explicit linebreaks and hanging indents for whatever chunk of text ends up being longer than one typeset line.
For the sake of semiautomatic text-production I'd very much ...
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Overfull hbox in a section title
Every now and then I get this error and I don't know how to solve it. From what I understand reading other posts, it's because LaTeX doesn't know how to hyphenate some sentences and finds no good way ...
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embrac package allows for line breaking immediately before closing parenthesis (closing parenthesis starts new line)
I have started using the embrac package and found that in some lines of my text the package allows for a line break between the last parenthetically enclosed character and the closing parenthesis; i.e....
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full justification not worked in tex studio [closed]
I want to write down this document in latex. It is a book type document. I am using this packages
\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\parindent0pt \parskip10pt
\raggedright ...
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Custom line-breaks in minted environment
I'm using the minted package for my code listings.
I'd like to customize the line-breaks instead of using the breaklines option that does the line-breaking automatically. Unfortunately I haven't found ...
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How to set hard line breaks in Texstudio
I am using Texstudio in Ubuntu 18.04 as a Latex editor. I need to set hard line breaks. Can't find any way. The main issue I'm having is that in my editor, I see the soft line breaks (i..e., a new ...
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Optimize space usage of paragraphs
I have sometimes encountered the problem in TeX, that a paragraph does not fit on one single page and is therefore splitted over two pages. This behavior makes of course sense.
However, I noticed ...
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How to break the email-address in behind the @-symbol (scrlttr2)
I like to write a letter in latex, it all works fine so far, i just find that the sender information on the top rightis kind of "ugly". This results from the long email-address pushing the entire ...
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Insert LaTeX code at line break (follow up)
This is a follow-up question to David Carlisle's answer here (Insert LaTeX code at line break).
In addition to glyph nodes, is there a way to insert (almost) arbitrary LaTeX commands with the help of ...
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Normal text should be separated from caption title
I need to know how normal text can be separated from caption title.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,mathtools,amssymb,array,arydshln}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{...
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Prevent line break caused by \part in article class
I'm trying to prevent the line break caused by the \part command. In a second step, I'd also like to get rid of the word 'Part' in the output. Hence, what I'd like to have is:
I ABC
But I'm stuck ...
