[Tex/LaTex] No hyphen for a word

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I want to put pdflatex to not put a hyphen in a word went it comes to the end of the line.

I tried to put a \- in the beginning or the end of that word but it doesn't work.

For example if I put:This is a very long sentence that needs two lines with thatshouldnot\- be hyphened I will get:

This is a very long sentence that needs two lines with thatshouldnot-
be hyphened

and if I do it this way: This is a very long sentence that needs two lines with \-thatshouldnot be hyphened I will get:

This is a very long sentence that needs two lines with –
thatshouldnot be hyphened

I want 'thatshouldnot' to stay in one word and with no hyphen in the beginning or the end of the word.

Best Answer

if this word appears more than once in your document, and you never want it to be hyphenated, you can suppress hyphenation everywhere by putting this line in the preamble:

\hyphenation{thatshouldnot}

if it only occurs once, then david's answer using \mbox suffices.

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] How to prevent linebreaks after hyphen if word starts with hyphen

UPDATE: babel v3.9, released in March 2013, introduces a set of \babelhyphen macros -- see section 1.6 of the manual for details. In particular, \babelhyphen{nobreak} (the non-starred version) provides a non-breakable hyphen which allows hyphenation in the rest of the word -- for the present question, this may be used to define a new shorthand which removes the need to look up allowed breakpoints. (Note: Sometimes, the first allowed breakpoint will be located three or less characters after the non-breakable hyphen; if you consider such a breakpoint as inadequate, use my original answer.)

\documentclass[11pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}  
% The following requires babel v3.9 (released March 2013)
\defineshorthand[ngerman]{"+}{\babelhyphen{nobreak}}
\begin{document}
Das ist ein Mustertext, der dazu da ist, um diese aa Textsatzproblematik
    bzw. "+schwierigkeit zu demonstrieren 
\end{document}

ORIGINAL ANSWER: Use babel's "~ shorthand to add an explicit hyphen with prohibited line break; supplement this by using the "- shorthand to specify the first allowed follow-up breakpoint. (You will have to look up those with \showhyphens{Schwierigkeit}. See pp. 5--7 of the documentation of the german package for details and other shorthands. (Note: the babel shorthands originate from the german package, which is considered obsolete nowadays.)

By the way, using "~ but not "- in your example would produce an overfull hbox.

\documentclass[11pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}  
\begin{document}
Das ist ein Mustertext, der dazu da ist, um diese aa Textsatzproblematik
    bzw. "~schwie"-rigkeit zu demonstrieren 
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to break long word containing symbols but with no hyphen

Manual Solution:

You could also do it manually, by inserting a \BreakableChar at the appropriate points:

Thisisaverylongtexttosimulateerror “firstterm*[title/abstract] AND 
(secondterm*\BreakableChar{}[title/abstract] OR thirdterm*[title/abstract])”

One small complication here is that I have defined \BreakableChar with an optional parameter, and since your subsequent text begins with a [, it necessitated the use of {}.

Automated Solution:

You could adapt the solution from Automatic line breaking of long lines of text too automatically insert a breakable char at the points where you want it. To use this just pass the entire string to \AddBreakableChars{}:

Thisisaverylongtexttosimulateerror “firstterm*[title/abstract] AND 
\AddBreakableChars{(secondterm*[title/abstract]} OR thirdterm*[title/abstract])”

The current definition of it will insert a \BreakableChar following any * or \ . This can be extended to apply to additional characters as well. I have also shown in commented code what to do for cases where there is a character where you want to break and do want to insert a hyphen.

Results:

Here is the original text followed by the text where the term is given to the automated, \AddBreakableChars{} macro, and the one with a \BreakableChar manually inserted at the appropriate point: