[Tex/LaTex] “Bleed” text into the page margins

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Is it possible to have lines (as an exception) that continue into the right margin ?

Here's why I hope it's possible: I have a document and one of the headings is the formal name of a particular organization. The name is a few letters wider than what fits in the article's text width. It looks uglier if I break it in two lines than allowing for this exception (because of the space around it, in this particular document it doesn't look that bad).

One option suggested by SE is given in the question How can I change the margins for only part of the text?. The reason I'm asking is that maybe there is another way, to tell LaTeX "do not break this line, even if you bleed into the margin".

If there isn't, I'll look into the changepage package, but it's worth asking.

Thanks in advance.

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It can depend on where you need to do this, but the standard methods for keeping text together should work for you:

aaa bbb ccc ddd~eee~fff ...

aaa bbb ccc \mbox{ddd eee fff} ...

Under no circumstances will ddd eee fff ever break, so you can write the entire organisation name with \mbox and it should do what you want.

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I guess I'm a little unsure which question you're asking: how to disable hyphens, or how to prevent words running into the margins.

When LaTeX lets words flow into the right margin, it reports a "overfull hbox", and produces a warning. This is its way of telling you that it cannot find a paragraph layout that meets its own fussy typography rules, which puts limits to how far it's willing to stretch words apart to retain full justification. It's sort of its way into annoying you into considering rewording the paragraph to make it more attractive typographically. But especially if this is not the final version, you may not care. You can make it less fussy by putting:

\sloppy

right after \begin{document}, and then you'll see far less words spill into the margin -- probably none. For a normal document, it should apply to the whole document, unless you disable it, or contain it inside braces, etc.

Disabling hyphens and forcing wrapping at word boundaries will make it more likely, not less, for there to be bad hboxes which would make words spill into the margins, since it increases how much space it may need to insert. However, if you want to disable hyphenation through the document, try putting:

\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}

in the preamble.

[Tex/LaTex] Center over-long equations between both margins

Here's what you want. Please, don't inflict it to your readers

\newsavebox{\overlongequation}
\newenvironment{dontbotheriftheequationisoverlong}
 {\begin{displaymath}\begin{lrbox}{\overlongequation}$\displaystyle}
 {$\end{lrbox}\makebox[0pt]{\usebox{\overlongequation}}\end{displaymath}}

You use it just like displaymath (or \[...\])

\begin{dontbotheriftheequationisoverlong}
1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+
11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20=
210
\end{dontbotheriftheequationisoverlong}

For a solution compatible with other alignment environments, just use a word processor instead of a typesetting system. Seriously: the effect is worse than you can think.

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