Prevent hyphenation and use line break in block of text

Question

I have a custom block of text on my title page which can be longer than a single line. By default LaTeX is hyphenating a word at the end of a line, but I want it to break on to the next line.

How do I force this to happen?

I know I can use \\ in the text, but I'm creating a standard template for a documents and I would prefer it to handle this edge case automatically instead of having to remember to break the text manually.

E.g.

This is my title longpiece-
oftext

should be

This is my title
longpieceoftext

score 46 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 01 '22 at 20:25

See this answer in the TeX FAQ.

Three "easy" ways to prevent hyphenation for a text block (as opposed to the whole document) are:

Enclose the text block in a raggedright environment (this typesets the block raggedright and makes hyphenation very unlikely);
Enclose the text block in a group and set \hyphenpenalty and \exhyphenpenalty to 10000;
EDIT: Load the hyphenat package and write \nohyphens{(text block)}.

Minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{hyphenat}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\textwidth 300pt
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{raggedright}
\blindtext
\end{raggedright}
\begingroup
\hyphenpenalty 10000
\exhyphenpenalty 10000
\blindtext
\endgroup
\nohyphens{\blindtext}
\end{document}

EDIT 2: The biblatex package provides the additional commands \nohyphenation (which normally should be used inside a group) and \textnohyphenation{(text)}.

biblatex's \[text]nohyphenation only work on complete paragraphs; they rely on \lefthyphenmin, and the value of that at the end of the paragraph is used when breaking a paragraph into lines. — wasteofspace, Apr 15 '11 at 16:09
I would like to point out that none of these solutions work if the wrapfigure is used. The text simply ignores the figure and writes on it. — Peaceful, Oct 13 '21 at 06:59

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 06 '10 at 13:58

20

If the longpieceoftext s are few and easily identified, then

This is my title \mbox{longpieceoftext} with 
some other \mbox{ridiculouslylongtextaddition}

should do what you want. You will, of course, "get what you wish for, so beware": over/underfull boxes...

answered Nov 06 '10 at 13:58

Brent.Longborough

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This may cause the text block to stick into the margin. – lockstep Nov 06 '10 at 14:01
@lockstep: Yes, true. I think OP needs to clarify a bit exactly what he's trying to do. For example, this answer plus \raggedright might fill the bill... – Brent.Longborough Nov 06 '10 at 17:07

score 8 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

8

You must use:

\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}

Read this link

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

Community

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answered Nov 11 '13 at 22:24

Christina

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This would prevent more than only one text block, wouldn't it? – cabohah Jan 31 '23 at 12:52

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 20 '16 at 04:47

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You can use the command:

\raggedright

or the environment:

\begin{flushleft}
\end{flushleft}

§ Paragraph alignment

answered Mar 20 '16 at 04:47

Zombo

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 12 '16 at 10:07

2

Easiest solution:

\usepackage{hyphenat}
\DeclareCaptionTextFormat{new}{\nohyphens{#1}}

edited Apr 12 '16 at 10:07

answered Apr 12 '16 at 09:58

Tshuliaen

31

You can highlight code in your post using back-ticks. For code-blocks indent them by four spaces or use the {} on the gui. – Apr 12 '16 at 10:08

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 31 '23 at 09:51

0

If you want to prevent names from being hyhenated then in the preamble write \hyphenation{Verylongname anothername namex namey etcetera}.

I think you need the babel package for this.

edited Jan 31 '23 at 09:51

KersouMan

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answered Jan 31 '23 at 08:54

Bert

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But note, this would prevent the given words from being hyphenated everywhere in the document not only in one special text block. – cabohah Jan 31 '23 at 12:53

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