{line-breaking} is about how (La)TeX breaks paragraphs into lines and how those breaks can be influenced.
Questions tagged [line-breaking]
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What is the difference between \newline and \\?
As far as I know, \\ and \newline both insert a new line. But they do not have an identical expansion and tracing shows they do not execute the same commands, so what is their difference?
JanKanis
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How to put two newlines in LaTeX
How can I put two consecutive newlines in LaTeX? If I put two \\ the compiler gives me an error.
alexrn
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Insert a new line without \newline command
I'm searching for inser a new line just push the "enter" button on the keyboard.
Is there a solution?
This is the "boring" way:
\section{mySection}
My really really really long text.\newline
A new text line.
This is instead a shorter and…
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Automatic line breaking of long lines of text?
Here, it is just a example. I have a line:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Now, I want to let LaTeX automatically wrap the line according to the width of the text…
Frank Wang
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LaTeX equivalent of
in HTML?
In HTML, all I would have to do is:
This is line one
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This is line two to get the following output: This is line one . . This is line two I've been playing around with \\ and \newline but can't get it to work. Can someone provide a…
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This is line two to get the following output: This is line one . . This is line two I've been playing around with \\ and \newline but can't get it to work. Can someone provide a…
Level1Coder
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Phantom and line break
I want to make a cloze test using LaTeX. My Idea was to use the \phantom command to produce the space:
Some text \underline{\phantom{some text to complete}} some more text.
Now the problem is that \phantom seems to handle "some text to complete" as…
student
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Asterism and similar breaking / non-breaking options
What are the options that can be considered an alternative to the old asterism (⁂) symbol ?
I would like to denote a small break in the flow of the text, I noticed that this days many people like to just add more whitespace than the usual new line;…
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Insert a linebreak only if there was none before
I am looking for a way to tell TeX:
Please break that line if and only if you are not on new line already.
I need this for a new environment which should always start in a new line. But I don't (how could I?) know, whether the author has typed a…
Dominikus K.
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How can I make a pair of words stick together in line breaks?
How can I make a pair of words stick together in line breaks? For example, "MS Access". I don't want a line break in the middle. But, I'd like to set this up once, not at every occurrence of that word pair.
edit: Check out Sveinung's answer for two…
Emanuel Berg
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How to obtain perfect greyness with TeX?
Greyness, or typographic color is the apparent blackness of a block of text.
I would be curious how you deal with improving it in TeX. How much can TeX's inherent line-breaking algorithm be fine-tuned to obtain the best solution?
(Edit: Rephrased…
helcim
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Why is \linebreak failing?
Consider the following minimal, using \linebreak:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered
my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day
and night. \linebreak
Object there was none.…
yannisl
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long word exceeds page width
I have this word in my document:
--standard\_min\_confidence\_threshold\_for\_calling
It currently exceeds the page width. How can I make it start on the next line, so it doesn't exceed the page width? I should probably add that I'm new to tex.
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How to wrap a word in line without hyphen?
I m writing one article in which i need to write a paragraph full of medical terms. How can i wrap a text in a line without using line break (or hyphen)?
Regards
manish
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How to prevent LaTeX from line-breaking a phrase?
How can I prevent LaTeX from putting line-breaks into a phrase?
I could replace dashes with "~ and spaces with non-breaking spaces, but I'm looking for a more general solution in case I need other characters in such phrases.
Tim N
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Breakable period
LaTeX will not insert a line break before or after a period . I understand why you'd want to avoid line break before a period, since you'd otherwise get stranded periods at the end of sentences. I assume there are good reasons for not allowing…
Sverre
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