[Tex/LaTex] Line breaks inside commands

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Is there a way to have line breaks inside commands that don't accept line breaks. For example,

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

    \mbox{line 1\\line 2}

\end{document}

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Some examples and solutions:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\usepackage{parskip}
\begin{document}

\texttt{line 1\\line 2}

\emph{line 1\\line 2}

But:

\mbox{line 1\\line 2}

\fbox{line 1\\line2}

Solutions:

\fbox{\parbox{5cm}{line 1\\line 2}} % or environment minipage

% varwidth is like minipage, but truncates the lines if possible:
\fbox{\begin{varwidth}{5cm}line 1\\line 2\end{varwidth}}

\fbox{\begin{tabular}{ll}line 1\\line 2\end{tabular}}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to force line breaks within a fancyvrb verbatim environment

I am afraid fancyvrb doesn't allow what you want to do; a possible workaround would be using the listings package instead of (or together with) fancyvrb (listings offers automatic line breaking and many other useful features; please refer to the package documentation for details). You can keep your current example environment in the document body, and simply define it using listings in your preamble; something like this:

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{listings} 

\lstset{% 
  basicstyle=\ttfamily, 
  breaklines=true,
  columns=fullflexible,
  escapeinside = ||,
  breakindent=0pt} 
\lstnewenvironment{example}{}{} 

\begin{document} 

\begin{example} 
Foo|\\|Bar 
\end{example} 

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Line breaks in listings

Thanks to Torbjørn T., my question is answered:

One simply has to say:

\lstset{%
  breaklines=true,
  breakatwhitespace=true,
}

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