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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Automatic line break in tabularx environment
I'm trying to get a table that automatically inserts a line-break so some very long text can fit in the cell, instead of overflowing to the margins like it's doing now. I tried with \makecell but didn'...
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How do I reproduce the numbered items in a Beamer list in text?
I wrote a theorem in beamer with \enumerate.
Then I need to write "Idea of proof of 1", with "1" which should be written the same way it appears in the theorem, ie a blue dot with ...
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Fix Overfull Line in Bibliography [duplicate]
I have an overfull line in my bibliography (BibLaTeX) that I can't get rid of, see the image below.
I would assume that this behavior is caused by the hyphenated double word "Password-Scrambling&...
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Lyx new equation line
I have written the above expression in lyx using command+ return for new lines. But if I need only two equations as shown, how can I delete the rest 4 rows!!!
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How can remove the horizontal line in the end of overleaf template?
I'm working on an expose (research proposal) and I selected this template in overleaf which is 2 columns. now the problem is I want to include bibliography right after \section{References} but from ...
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Line breaks for items while wrapping images with a list
I am trying to create a list with figure on the right side in beamer but the sentence breaks at unusual places.
\begin{frame}{Protocol}
\begin{wrapfigure}{R}{0.2\textwidth}
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How to automatically linebreak an inline math formula?
Here is an example of a parbox that produces both an underfull and an overfull warning:
\parbox{100pt}{A set of comparison triplets \(T = \{ (i,j,l) | z_i \;is\; more\; similar\; to\; z_j\; than\; z_l\...
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move the text to a new line inside a tabular of text and figure
hi I have a piece of code that looks like this in tabular:
\usepackage{mwe}
\begin{tabular}
(1) & \includegraphics[width=0.2\textwidth]{images/some_image.png} & He thinks:
$``$Maybe, the ...
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table of figures failing to break only one caption line out of dozens of caption lines
I have a list of figures that breaks dozens of figure caption lines according to the margin settings, except for this one line of this one figure caption. If I add a word to the figure caption the ...
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How to get the titles broken into multiple lines for multicolumn and multirow?
I am using below code,
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Before\strut}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
\multirow{2}{*}{Ser.} &
\multirow{2}{*}{$V_{tune}$ (V)} &
...
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tagging package and subfigures: faulty vertical alignment
I'm using the great tagged package to compile my document using graphics of different qualities and/or file formats. The MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\...
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How to break long citations on a multirow tabular environment?
so I have the following table which I intend to show a summary of some research papers:
\documentclass[qualidr]{ppgco}
%Não altere o comando seguinte. O título de seu trabalho será especificado mais ...
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\kern after \linebreak doesn't work
MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[margin=30mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\noindent this is good that is food this is good that is food this is good that
is food ...
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Line breaks in non-clickable URls inside itemize-environment?
I want to list som URLs within an itemize-environment. I would like to break long URLs into several lines, either anywhere in the link, or at locations I specify.
I've tried using the breaklinks ...
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Mark where a line break should go IF the line needs breaking
I want to paragraph-break a text at a specific spot, but only if the text is too long for the line. In the MWE below, the first text fits the line width, but the second does not. Of course, I could ...
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\baselineskip not working on array
I want to add a linebreak with distance proportional to \baselineskip in array environment, in order to make my document more stable to format change.
However, it seems as \baselineskip is zero in ...
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Version of \smash that still stretches, shrinks and allows linebreaks
Is it possible to set the height, depth or total height — optionally — of some content in a paragraph to zero while still allowing its white spaces to stretch or shrink and linebreaks to occur? Maybe ...
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A version of `\ignorespaces` that doesn't overspill the line
I’m using commands based on the tabular environment to align pairs of words in a linguistics book. After some pairs, I use \ignorespaces to suppress spacing, but this causes lines to overspill. Is ...
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How to prevent biburlnumpenalty to create orphans in DOI
I'm writing my thesis and use the ext-authoryear stile with biblatex. (Unfortunately I have to make a lot of manual adjustments to fulfill the committee's "style" requirements.)
In my ...
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Equation break in align equations in beamer
Question:
Here I am working on an example in which I have some equations for which I am using align.
The problem is, can I get next equation on next slide without writing new align environment? Second ...
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Can Latex automatically break words at a certain special character (underscore) in the whole document?
I have a large document that includes many tables like this one. I would like the filenames to break in several lines so that they fit in the column.
Is there a way to tell Latex it can break all ...
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New line (line breaking) does not work for \tcbox
I put some text into a box using \tcbox. I then intend to create a new line in the box as follows:
\tcbox{%
\begin{small}
\begin{concmath}
first line\\ % here a new ...
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Insert text except whenever it will be placed at the end of a line
Is it possible have a command insert some text except in the case
that it will be placed at the end of a line? Here’s a simple (LuaLaTeX) example:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\...
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multiple breaklines symbols for minted
I would like to allow minted to break lines after either ., , or a space.
Currently I could only break lines either after , or before .
How can I allow more characters?
\documentclass{article}
\...
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How to add the automatic line-break in multicolumn cell
I have created a table, and I have fixed its width, but the problem when I write a long text, the text breaks the line, I want to add an automatic line break when the text should respect the width of ...
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Square from \end{proof} displaying incorrectly
Often, when I'm ending my proofs, the square generated by \end-proof is coming in new line for no reason.
I'm using the vanilla proof environment with a couple enumerates and a lot of text inside.
And ...
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Get rid of extra horizontal space between words in bibliography
There is additional horizontal whitespace between words in my bibliography entries. I assume latex does this to align line breaks. But this whitespace is too large. I want to remove the extra ...
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Overfull Title in a Poster
I'm trying to create a poster with tikzposter, and when I put the title (I know it's too big) it went off the page. I had already tried with \\, \ linebreak, \ vspace(4mm) (I know the last one is not ...
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latex table: include '\n' in a table cell?
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l | l | c | c }
Name & Hex & dezimal & C-char \\
<cr> & 0x0D & 13 & '\\r' \\ % should read '\r'
<lf> ...
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split a long email adress at the “@”
In a document of mine I would like to give people the option of filling in their email adress. However, for some exceptionally long email adresses the text box can be larger than the tikzpicture node ...
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Ignore double \newline on page break
When I want two paragraphs of text to be separated by an empty line in between, I use:
\newline
\newline
However, I would like that extra empty line to be ignored if it happens that the page breaks ...
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minted does not break lines based on breakbefore
I want minted to break lines after ".", so I use breakbefore=. and breakbytokenanywhere=true but minted still breaks the line before "." instead of after. What am I missing?
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Newline or line break in Tikz
So I am trying to follow this this link to break up the text in two lines. Here is my code:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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Linebreaking in tikz table
I want to have a line break in the text that I write inside a tikz table(example here A minimalist block in latex beamer). The latex code I have is:
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{...
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Custom table layout for variable description
What do I want to do
I want to create a table for presenting a lot of variables in a clear way. Each class does get its own table containing up to one hundred variables, so the the table has to be ...
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bibitem doesn't assume line-break
I just started using thebibliography environment.
It is not big deal so I decided to stay with this functionality, without using any .bib file.
I am struggling with the following lines :
\begin{...
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How to avoid this error defining a \newcommand?
I want to define this macro:
\newcommand{stackonetwo}{\begin{smallmatrix} 1 \\ 2 \end{smallmatrix}}
But I think the compiler doesn't like \\ inside the new command. It returns the error Missing ...
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Extremely LONG equation with large fraction
I am trying to type this extremely long equation without success. I got this result out of Mathematica and copied it. For some reason, the parentheses are not changing their shape according to the ...
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How do I indent after a line break command, in case the line before the line break is at least a certain length?
I want to an auto indentation after using the line break command, in case the line before the line break command has at least a certain lenght (in best case relative to my page width).
Example:
bla ...
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Add Unbreaking Space in BibLaTeX: `\setunit{\addunbreakingspace}`?
I use biblatex for my bibliographies. I have two items at the end, let's call them Y and Z. (The exact details of what these are is not important.) Currently I separate them with a space via \setunit{\...
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\medskip after every paragraph
After every paragraph I write, I use \medskip all the time e.g.
\begin{document}
test test test
\medskip
test test test
\end{document}
Is there a way to automate this so I don't need to type in \...
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Linebreak before a link
In German, abbreviations can be part of compound words that need to be hyphenated, like "Java-API".
My problem is that when I write Java-\gls{api}, I never get a line break after the hyphen. I ...
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\newpage not working in article class
I'm having an error with my code but i don't know why. Please help me with this:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[...
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How to automatically convert blank lines to something else
I want to convert blank lines to \\[0.2cm] automatically
TextText
Text
TextTextText
TextTextText
Text
Text
is what i copy paste inside the document
but i do not want any indent and a specific gap ...
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Overleaf editor automatically inserts an inconvenient line break in the middle of a word or sentence after apostrophes and accents
I have a problem which I believe to be linked to the Overleaf editor. I am writing a document in book format, in French. As I usually write articles in English, I copy here the beginning of the ...
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Long footnote stretches out width of columns
I'm new to LaTeX and ran into a problem with formatting my table. I would like to have a long footnote underneath the table that starts a new line as soon as it reaches the border of the last column ...
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Long word didn't hyphenate
I'm sure it would be quite easy to answer it but currently, I'm sorry that I couldn't to do that, I'm using beamer packages are given below there is a word that used "demonstrated" I'm trying to break ...
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How to format the output for an bibliographic entry?
I would like my References to be formatted as the following:
Author(s)
Title
Journal ref, or publishers information
Doi or/& ISBN
Year
How could I do that? I am using BibTeX with natbib. Sorry ...
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How to break lines in your citation using Bibtex?
I've been having problems with LaTeX not automatically breaking the line (specifically for contents of the title field in entries of type @book) in my bibliography. I have tried everything to fix this ...
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How (!)within the same paragraph(!) to have places where lines are allowed to be too wide and places where lines are not allowed to be too wide?
Assume you have \macroA in a way where \macroA{⟨TeX number-quantity denoting amount⟩} produces an amount of characters A.
Assume you have \macroB in a way where \macroB{⟨TeX ...
