Questions tagged [penalty]
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Any elegant way to tell LaTeX that a line break after an abbreviation is bad but not impossible?
LaTeX manuals are full of examples such as Fig.~5 or Thm.~10. The tilde prohibits a line break after the abbreviation completely, to make sure that the reader doesn't see a period at the end of a ...
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How to insert LaTeX commands through LuaLaTeX callbacks?
I would like to encourage LaTeX to break a line or page at the end of a sentence, after one of the following punctuation marks: "." ; "!" and "?".
I would like to put a ...
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Making punctuation groups almost unbreakable, avoiding orphans and widows
I have a script that generates PDF from the rich text. I want to make sure there are no orphans and widows that contains only punctuations or line break before punctuation if there is a word attached ...
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How to place an optional break with second line flushed to right?
I wrote a table of the \advance operator.
If the line is too long, I want a break, and the second line flushed to right.
I tried to get inspiration from the macro \signed presented in the TeXbook, ...
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Reliable way to know a (lower bound?) remaining space on the page
In order to solve this question:
Wrap automatically into figure if not enough space to place it Here
I need to learn the remaining space on the current page.
I tried this to put a rule of exactly the ...
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Could someone explain threeparttable's para setting?
The para setting in threeparttable (excerpt below) uses what David Carlisle calls "an interesting collection of penalties and glue" that I must sadly confess is beyond me. Could someone ...
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Forbidding line breaks after specific symbols in inline math?
I'm writing a text in which order relations (e.g. <, \prec, \ll) often appear as arguments of functions rather than binary operators (e.g. $O(P,<)$). Every so often this leads to an inline ...
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What are exactly those \widowpenalties and what are they doing precisely? [duplicate]
In this answer, the author is using the command \widowpenalties=3 10000 10000 150.
While I can understand what \widowpenalty is doing, I found no documentation for \widowpenalties3 nor for \...
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\penalty Not Having Effect
I am trying to suppress page breaks following a minor heading that I've defined. However, the penalty does not seem to have any effect, no matter where I place it. MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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How to avoid the consecutive hyphenation in a para
i am getting the consecutive hyphen at the line end in a paragraph (more than 5 consecutive hyphen), in a two column format, I already used \doublehyphendemerits=10000, but not solved the issue.
how ...
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