How to keep a short word together with the rest of the sentence?

Question

I'm writing an article. In a certain paragraph, the last sentence is spread over two lines. The second line is just a short word ('in') and that's a bit ugly.

Is there an easy way to keep it together with the rest of the sentence on a single line? I think about shrinking the space between the words or the characters.

put \looseness=-1 before the start of the paragraph and TeX will try to make that para one line shorter — David Carlisle, Jun 01 '14 at 10:50
If \looseness=-1 fails, use ~ before the trailing “in.” The ~ is good anyway before sentence ending prepositions and it won't interfere with \looseness (at least for the last line). — egreg, Jun 01 '14 at 10:56
Related/duplicate: Which choice of line-breaking parameters gives the minimum number of lines — Werner, Jun 02 '14 at 05:11

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '14 at 10:53

Put

\looseness=-1

before the start of the paragraph and TeX will try to make that para one line shorter, if the paragraph is long enough there is usually enough flexibility in TeX's linebreak algorithm to adjust the number of lines without exceeding the specified \tolerance.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 02 '14 at 03:46

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Use non-breaking space, i.e., "do~not~split". Use sparingly, I'd add such tweaks only in the last step before printing the definite version.

answered Jun 02 '14 at 03:46

vonbrand

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How to keep a short word together with the rest of the sentence?

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