I have a custom block of text on my title page which can be longer than a single line. By default LaTeX is hyphenating a word at the end of a line, but I want it to break on to the next line.
How do I force this to happen?
I know I can use \\
in the text, but I'm creating a standard template for a documents and I would prefer it to handle this edge case automatically instead of having to remember to break the text manually.
E.g.
This is my title longpiece-
oftext
should be
This is my title
longpieceoftext
Best Answer
See this answer in the UK TeX FAQ.
Three "easy" ways to prevent hyphenation for a text block (as opposed to the whole document) are:
Enclose the text block in a
raggedright
environment (this typesets the block raggedright and makes hyphenation very unlikely);Enclose the text block in a group and set
\hyphenpenalty
and\exhyphenpenalty
to 10000;EDIT: Load the hyphenat package and write
\nohyphens{(text block)}
.Minimal example:
EDIT 2: The biblatex package provides the additional commands
\nohyphenation
(which normally should be used inside a group) and\textnohyphenation{(text)}
.