I've seen several different methods that can be used to make long words not go over the right margin, but all of them have been paragraph-based. I need a solution that can apply to the entire text rather than just a piece of it of at a time. I can live with hyphens, but if it's possible to make lines break on word boundaries, that would be even better.
[Tex/LaTex] How to make the text never go over the right margin by always hyphenating or breaking on word-boundaries
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Without any package, your only hope is that they use a fairly recent TeX distribution:
\newcommand{\url}[1]{%
\begingroup
\ttfamily
\begingroup\lccode`~=`/\lowercase{\endgroup\def~}{/\discretionary{}{}{}}%
\begingroup\lccode`~=`.\lowercase{\endgroup\def~}{.\discretionary{}{}{}}%
\catcode`/=\active\catcode`.=\active
\scantokens{#1\noexpand}%
\endgroup
}
This will allow breaks after periods and slashes.
If you have some special character in your URLs, they can be taken care of, just present some examples.
The quote environment of LaTeX does hyphenation and the same is true for the display environments provided by the csquotes package. Your problem is that TeX turns hyphenation off the moment a word contains anything other than letters. So something like explicit hyphens turn this off or \accent commands (a real problem for many languages before TeX had fonts with accented characters), etc. Given your example, anyhting after / is not hyphenated (not that "hippo" is a great thing to hyphenate --- actually TeX would anyway refuse to do that :-) )
If you use \slash instead of / hyphenation at that point is allowed, but the following word is still not hyphenated (see example). So you need to do more to get hyphenation going there, I added a command \Slash below just to do that. The trick is to have the slash followed by some space (the width of this doesn't really matter) as this makes TeX restart its hyphenation for the next word.
\documentclass[draft]{article}
\newcommand\Slash{\slash\hspace{0pt}} % a / that allows hyphenting next word
\begin{document}
\showhyphens{hippopotamus hippo} % to see what hyphens we can expect
\parbox{2cm}{hippo/hippopotamus} \vspace{5pt} % no hyphenation
\parbox{2cm}{hippo\slash hippopotamus} \vspace{5pt} % no hyphenation after /
\parbox{2cm}{hippo\Slash hippopotamus} % full hyphenation
\end{document}
I have turned "hippopotamus/hippo" to get any hyphenation. We then get:
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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:
\sloppyright 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.