[Tex/LaTex] Avoid line break in section

line-breakingspacing

I do have a section name with a pretty long name but which could "nicely" fit on one line. I was wondering, therefore, how I could avoid the line to break, perhaps using some space compression and/or line overflow.

\documentclass[12pt,article,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\mainmatter
\section{Convolutional artificial neural networks --- ConvNets}
\end{document}

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Basically, I'd like to have a one-line title (I don't like how it looks like, and gaining an extra line would be also quite helpful).

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If you really want this you could just stick the title in an \mbox:

\documentclass[12pt,article,oneside]{memoir}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\mainmatter
\section{\mbox{Convolutional artificial neural networks --- ConvNets}}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Line break in section name

You can use the optional argument for the section (inside [...]) which will used for running content:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\section[my section]{This is going to \\ go for two lines}
\lipsum

\end{document}

enter image description here

Make sure to use a short title in the optional argument.

[Tex/LaTex] Hbox overfull: automatic linebreaks on spaces

you've already separated the different elements, providing spaces between the distinct equations comprising each language and separately coding these equations as math (even though the space between the first two is, probably inadvertently, omitted). unfortunately, these spaces don't fall in a place that is optimal for tex to break the line.

the ultimate goal is for what is presented to be understood.

there are two parts to this recommendation.

first, the words "milk, curry, rice" are, as you say, constants, and as such should be in a text font, preferably not italic in this context, even though they're part of the math expression. as coded in your original, they are typeset as strings of variables multiplied together. these could be coded as \mathrm{<word>}, but that doesn't help with line breaking. it also wouldn't leave spaces after the commas, although in this situation, whether spaces are visible there or not wouldn't be misunderstood by a reader.

another way to approach these is to recognize them as text, and input them as, for example,

$\mathcal{C}_o=\{\text{milk, curry, rice}\}$

but this doesn't help with line breaking either, since in this context, the only "allowable" break is after the equals sign.

so, second part of suggestion, take advantage of the fact that a reader isn't likely to misunderstand what is meant if a line is broken within that string of constants, and (temporarily) terminate the math after the opening brace, and reinstate it for the ending brace:

$\mathcal{C}_o=\{$milk, curry, rice$\}$

to illustrate, using a forced line break for the "all math" instance, compare these two lines:

enter image description here

here's the input that produced the image:

\begin{itemize}
\item The language of enquiry $\mathcal{L}$ is given by
$\mathcal{C}_o=\{milk, curry, rice\}$,\\
$\mathcal{R}_o=\{TastesHot, IsWhite, ContainsSpice, ContainsSugar\}$,
$\mathcal{F}_o=\{\}$.
\item The language of enquiry $\mathcal{L}$ is given by
$\mathcal{C}_o=\{$milk, curry, rice$\}$,
$\mathcal{R}_o=\{$TastesHot, IsWhite, ContainsSpice, ContainsSugar$\}$,
$\mathcal{F}_o=\{\}$.
\end{itemize}

(by the way, that's hardly a minimal example.)

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