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Code:

\documentclass[10pt,paper=14.8cm:21cm,BCOR=10mm,DIV=12,parskip=half]
{scrbook}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
Markus hat den Krieg überstanden, hat Zahnmedizin studiert und wurde
Zahnarzt in Bonn. Aus der Ehe mit Manuela Schmidt (1905–1989) gingen vier
Kinder hervor: Otto (1926–1995), Marta (geb. 1931), Fritz (1933–1999) und
Sonja (geb. 1942).
\end{document}

Output:

Text as rendered from above code

Desired output:

Text rendering as desired

To avoid overly long lines, I'd like to tell LaTeX that it's OK to line break date ranges.

Ruben
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feklee
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  • I think according to http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5036/, something like (1905-{\allowbreak}1989) would do the trick. – Thomas Weise Jul 19 '15 at 21:16
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    if you use the minus sign you can replace it with "=; also works for combined words like Mehrzweck"=Küchenmaschine – musicman Jul 19 '15 at 22:30

1 Answers1

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I suggest you replace all instances of "–" (hardcoded en-dash) with "--\allowbreak". (Aside: if your document has hard-coded em-dashes, you may want to replace them with "---\allowbreak".) The "\allowbreak" part is needed if you compile your document with LuaLaTeX; it's not strictly necessary with pdfLaTeX (though it doesn't hurt either).

For the paragraph at hand, one of the three possible new line breaks will be used.

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\documentclass[10pt,paper=14.8cm:21cm,BCOR=10mm,DIV=12,parskip=half]
{scrbook}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
Markus hat den Krieg überstanden, hat Zahnmedizin studiert und wurde
Zahnarzt in Bonn. Aus der Ehe mit Manuela Schmidt (1905--\allowbreak 1989) 
gingen vier Kinder hervor: Otto (1926--\allowbreak 1995), Marta (geb. 
1931), Fritz (1933--\allowbreak 1999) und Sonja (geb. 1942).
\end{document}
Mico
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  • I feel like there was a way to automate this with \newunicodechar or something – Sean Allred Jul 19 '15 at 22:45
  • Why do you recommend replacing the hard coded dash – with --? – feklee Jul 19 '15 at 22:45
  • @feklee - The \allowbreak directive is necessary if the document is compiled under LuaLaTeX. With pdfLaTeX, it's not required, but it doesn't hurt either. I'll add a note to the answer to point out this distinction. – Mico Jul 19 '15 at 22:48
  • What do you think about avoiding the hard-coding via \newcommand{\daterange}[2]{#1--\allowbreak#2} or something similar? – Ruben Jul 19 '15 at 23:59
  • @Ruben -- Sure, that'll work very well. – Mico Jul 20 '15 at 00:07
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    @Ruben Try this on for size: \def\daterange#1{\daterangei#1\stop}\def\daterangei#1-#2\stop{#1--\allowbreak#2}...\daterange{1926-1995}. (Untested, but should work. A more robust implementation is possible with \tl_replace_all:Nnn from expl3.) – Sean Allred Jul 20 '15 at 02:42
  • @SeanAllred -- I like the interface design of your version is way better ;) – Ruben Jul 20 '15 at 10:37