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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Problems using empty lines in color switching command
This is a follow up to my question Change color system for part of a document?
I tried to solve this problem by defining the document to be blue (or whatever color I want) then to switch the colors ...
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Make not breaking inline math the default
I find myself often converting some inline math like $a < b$ into ${a < b}$ so TeX won't insert a line break after the comparison operator. I would prefer if TeX simply treated my inline math as ...
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Preventing Hangul (Korean) words from splitting and breaking onto the next line
I am working on a document in Korean, using Hangul characters.
It appears that LaTeX freely breaks apart words when it breaks lines naturally.
I want to force LaTeX to ONLY break lines on whitespace,...
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When doesn't `\\` start a new line in `\caption`?
Using the command in Why does parameter double when used in caption?, it works in most cases, but in a few cases (like 1 out of 20) \\ does not start a new line.
For example using
\begin{table}
\...
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Subsection throws LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end
I have section and subsection commands in my LaTeX code described as follows. These are included in the style file, foo.cls:
\newenvironment{aside}{%
\let\oldsection\section
\renewcommand{\...
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How to break lines of s.th. like a minipage at smallest width possible without the minipage exceeding a given recommended height?
I use LaTeX 2e. I have material for horizontal mode.
Is there an environment similar to minipage with syntax similar to
\begin{SmallestWidthAtRecommendedHeight}[⟨Outer Position⟩]{&...
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Enable hyphenated word breaking
When I compile my LaTeX file to produce pdf, the word breaking is not happening. Instead the complete word moves to the next line and extra spaces are inserted between the words in the current line. ...
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How to add discardable vertical glue behind horizontal-mode-material only in case paragraph ends?
I use LaTeX2e. My question is: Can you have a command which adds vertical glue (or increases \parskip-glue) if the next thing that happens is starting new paragraph?
Something like:
\documentclass{...
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Automatic line breaking at fixed character limit in listings
Is there a way to make a linebreak within listings based on a character limit?
This would sort of be like what most editors (like vim, emacs) have, where after a certain number of characters, say 80 ...
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List Environment with Items On Blank lines
How would one go about defining an environment that automatically places an itemize in front of whatever appears after each line break.
So
\begin{quicklist}
foo
bar
quaz
quiz
zoom
\end{...
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Wrap text in equations?
I'm writing a web application which generates LaTeX code to visualize an equation. There's one significant roadblock I'm running into: Sometimes, a part of the produced equation has a large number of ...
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tufte-book class word wrapping problems
I am having problems with text wrapping around a margin figure when I use the tufte-book class. Here is an MWE:
\documentclass{tufte-book}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb, bm, graphicx}
\begin{document}
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Is there an alternative for using \mbox to prevent ugly hyphenation in the toc
Assume I have a long chapter title \chapter{one two three four five six seven eight nine ten} that appears in the table of contents like this:
one two three four five six se-
ven eight ...
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Latex doesn't break line - line goes into border area
In my document I have several lines where the words are not wrapped to the next line. Latex writes it into the border area of the page.
I can not reproduce it in an MWE. There it is working correctly....
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Line break in title in LyX
I am using Beamer Article (standard class) in LyX. I have tried to break my title into many lines as I choose but I failed. I have tried
"...line 1... ctrl+enter
...line2..."
but in the PDF ...
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Consistency of hyphenation of hyphenated words
This is not something I have encountered before and not sure which is the recommended way to hyphenate words with hyphens in them.
The MWE below yields two different results based on how the text ...
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Line-breaking between arrays
I have these lists of values but they're all packed together, how can I add a new line between them? I've tried \ and \newline and all sorts but it would come up with errors.
Thanks!
\documentclass[...
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How to line-break a framed text box?
Is it possible to line-break a framed text box in LaTeX? If so, is it necessary to use some package to do so, and what is the name of that package?
EDIT: For greater clarity, let me give an example. ...
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Indentation of the second line of a chapter title in the header of a scrbook class document
I've got a custom scrbook class document and a long chapter title which produces a line break in the printing of the title in the header. The first character of the second line is not aligned with the ...
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\RaggedRight prevents hyphenation
The column type \newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{\RaggedRight\arraybackslash}p{#1}}
proposed here does not hyphenate long words that don't have a hyphen, but instead lets them protrude beyond the column.
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Is there a new incompatibility between ragged2e an scrlttr2?
The following MWE used to work fine, but since I updated my TeX distribution yesterday (hadn’t done it in a while) it raises an error as soon as there appears more than on \\ in the address. It works ...
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Short word after long word in narrow table cell
In a narrow raggedright table cell with a long word followed by a short word (for example "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa bbb"), if the first word is too wide and therefore hyphenated (using this solution), then the ...
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Conditional line break for better page break
Is there a way to insert a condition line break, in order to get better page breaks, i.e. less empty space on the pages?
My concrete problem is: In my document I have some large figures, and thus ...
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How to make a non-indented, monospaced Chinese character layout
I want the text to be laid out exactly as it appears here in the monospaced code environment:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[left=0.7in,right=0.7in,top=0.7in,bottom=0.7in]{geometry}...
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How can I stop this useless empty line popping up in the middle of my lists?
My custom enumerateoptional enumitem environment is putting a useless empty line in the middle of my enumeration list.
To reproduce this, you need to fill a line 100%. See this example I extracted ...
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Force line break on `\citep{}` inside `longtable` (XeLaTeX) [duplicate]
I am trying to create a quite long table that will also contain citations inside, but the \breakcites macro apparently does not work inside tabular environment. Placing \citep inside \makecell does ...
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Wrap text in the document inside custom command
I have created a custom command as follows:
\newcommand{\projectSubheading}[3]{
% \vspace{-1pt}
\item
\begin{tabular*}{0.97\textwidth}[t]{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
\textbf{#1} & #2 \\...
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Line break issues with \color command. pdflatex pdfcolorstack inserts boxes?
Coloring commands sometimes change how TeX breaks lines. Here's a minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
% Used to produce log statements below this snippet.
\tracingparagraphs=1
...
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How to split long C/C++ code line on two lines without inserting new line number?
I am using the following snippet to insert C/C++ code into my LaTeX document but the problem is that the code on one line is too long and it goes over the right side of the document page. How to split ...
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How to Remove `\marginparwidth` for Pages without Margin Notes?
In regular LaTeX, how could I remove the space reserved for sidenotes on pages that don't have any margin notes?
Issue: Just trying to use the extra space if possible.
I am trying to do this with ...
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Overflow the world in the my article
I have a problem with the overflow of the world, and example
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For resolve this problem I found two solutions, they are:
\newline
rewrite the sentences with the new words to resolve the ...
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Newline after \hbox “Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph”
This question has been aksed elsewhere , but it is not obvious from answers
there how do I achieve one more empty line after \hfill i.e. something similar to this without a Warning:
\underline{motto:}...
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How can I make text alternate color every line?
I'm not referring to tables, just normal paragraphs of text. I want, for example, every other line to be drawn in red, or otherwise highlighted.
My use case is preparing exams for students with ...
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environment without line breaks
I already read How can I prevent breaks in a custom environment? but this somehow does not solve my problem. I want to define an environment that defines a heading and then there is one line of text ...
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How to linebreak and keep indentation? [duplicate]
While writing down an algorithm, I've come to the following construct:
There are multiple for/if/while's before this one so it is quite indented.
Example code:
\usepackage{algpseudocode,algorithm,...
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LaTeX breaking line right before colon
This thread :
Prevent line break before :
describes exactly my issue today. Thus, I tried the solution that was given, ie I added this in my preamble :
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{...
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How do I automatically add linebreaks “\\” to the end of each row of a tabular environment?
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ |c|c|c| }
\hline
\multicolumn{3}{|c|}{\textbf{Cycle Number and Phase}} \\
\hline
t & $ \phi $ & I \\
\hline
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How to make a title of two or more lines? (revisited) [duplicate]
This is a sequel to this post. There are three lines in the title, and an awkward gap between the first ('AAAA...') and second ('OF'). How to get rid of it?
PS: I am showing the title THIRD, so I ...
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Link address on new line in bibliography
I have the following reference in my bibliography.db file:
@misc{vespa_url,
author = "{ESS}",
howpublished = "\url{https://europeanspallationsource.se/instruments/vespa}",
title = "Vespa ...
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Remove unwanted newline at start of section [duplicate]
In the code below there are two line breaks between "test" and the the text below it. How do you make there be just one?
\documentclass[7pt]{article}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{...
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Negative line break command
Is there a command for a "negative line break" or for deleting line breaks? Something like -\\ such that:
some\\ -\\ \\ \\text
would display the same as
some\\ \\text
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Line breaks with left and right rules
Sometimes, not always, rules are -- like parentheses -- left and right.
The previous sentence exemplifies this. In such cases, line breaks
oughtn't to separate the left rule from the word to the ...
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`\uline` from `ulem` package won't break lines automatically when containing boolean expression
Here is the MWE:
\documentclass{minimal}
% \usepackage{lipsum}
% \let\uline\underline
\usepackage{ulem}
\newif\ifanswer
\newcommand{\showanswer}[0]{\answertrue}
\newcommand{\hideanswer}[0]{\...
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autobreak formula but doesn't work
I have a long formula , I use autobreak as follows,but it doesn't work
\begin{align}
\begin{autobreak}
{E_{{S_{t + 1}}}}\left[ {\left. {E\left[ {\left. {{G_{t + 1}}} \right|{S_t},{S_{t + 1}}} \right]}...
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The last vertical line is broken … How do I leave it as a single line?
I tried to make a representation of a list of data structure as in the example below.
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage[table]{...
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Unnumbered centered part: linebreak in table of contents
I am working on a XeLaTeX “book” document, which is separated in two unnumbered parts. These two parts need to be entitled according to a “Title / Subtitle” scheme, with a linebreak as a separator ...
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How do I create a line break in display-mode equation material?
How do I make a new line in $\LaTeX$?
$$2^2+2=6
3^2+3=12$$
returns
$$2^2+2=6
3^2+3=12$$
which is wrong.
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Using the algorithmicx package If Then Else, when line is to long indentation breaks
Ignore the Spanish in the code. The problem is that I am getting the then clause of the nested if with the wrong indentation because of the line break.
\documentclass[11pt, oneside]{article}
\...
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Children misalignment in forest
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I am trying to draw a tree diagram with forest package. I have multiline children including the \texttt command and a one-line child with normal text. This results in a misalignment among the ...
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How to add new line/enter in csv s.t. automatic table generation contains the enter?
Given this code that automatically generates a table from a csv file, how can I ensure that an enter or new line is put into a cell in the table?
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{csvsimple}
\...
