biblatexbibtexline-breaking
I have an BibLaTeX entry which causes in \printbibliography command a overful hbox. How can I tell BibLaTex that a line break is allowed without a minus symbol?
In my case I have a text like ABC.learning. I want to allow BibLaTex to break the line after the dot.
The command \setbreakpoints is made for that. Setting \setbreakpoints [compound] enables a break point after /, +, (, ) and -. For more information see ConTeXt wiki Composed words.
Example:
\setuplayout [width=4cm]
\starttext
Lorem/ipsum/dolor/sit/amet,/consectetur/adipisicing/elit,/sed/%
do/eiusmod/tempor/incididunt/ut/labore/et/dolore/magna/aliqua.
\setbreakpoints [compound]
\blank
Lorem/ipsum/dolor/sit/amet,/consectetur/adipisicing/elit,/sed/%
do/eiusmod/tempor/incididunt/ut/labore/et/dolore/magna/aliqua.
\stoptext
You might want to try the following modification of the bibliography environment.
The bibliography will be printed unindented (\noindent), the \unspace removes the last space added in the bibliography, the \printtext part adds the label number followed by a space.
\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
{\noindent}% or {} if you like indentation
{\unspace}
{\printtext[labelnumberwidth]{%
\printfield{labelprefix}%
\printfield{labelnumber}}%
\addspace}
If you use this, however, there will be no space before the label, we can add it by
\renewbibmacro*{finentry}{\finentry\addspace}
The MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[firstinits=true,backend=bibtex,doi=false,isbn=false,url=false]{biblatex}
\AtEveryBibitem{%
\clearfield{pages}%
}
\renewcommand{\bibfont}{\normalfont\footnotesize}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
{\noindent}
{\unspace}
{\printtext[labelnumberwidth]{%
\printfield{labelprefix}%
\printfield{labelnumber}}%
\addspace}
\renewbibmacro*{finentry}{\finentry\addspace}
\begin{document}
\cite{wilde,shore,springer}
\printbibliography[heading=none]
\end{document}
yields
As you can see, this is not very clear and well arranged, so I would advise against doing this - especially in long bibliography lists.
Following jon's suggestion in the comment below, this might be better.
We add more space between the entries (a \quad) and print the label in bold.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[firstinits=true,backend=bibtex,doi=false,isbn=false,url=false]{biblatex}
\AtEveryBibitem{%
\clearfield{pages}%
}
\renewcommand{\bibfont}{\normalfont\footnotesize}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\defbibenvironment{bibliography}
{\noindent}
{\unspace}
{\printtext[bold]{%
\printtext[labelnumberwidth]{%
\printfield{labelprefix}%
\printfield{labelnumber}}}%
\addspace}
\renewbibmacro*{finentry}{\finentry\quad}
\begin{document}
\cite{wilde,shore,springer}
\printbibliography[heading=none]
\end{document}
Best Answer
My solution is to add a 0pt hspace.