line-breakingtext;
I have margins which I have to oblige by and also notes telling me that if I insert this tilde ˜ in front of each word it will stay on a line without getting broken. I have done this but this has not worked with
Lettre d'\'{E}tienne Pascal et Roberval ˜\`{a} ˜Fermat.
Fermat breaks onto the second line reading Fer-……mat.I tried with a standard ~ too. Any suggestions on how to prevent this break?.
You can use a manual line change in the title (and the optional argument of the \section command to prevent the line change from appearing in the headings and in the ToC). Another option would be to use the \sloppy command and non-breaking spaces (but this will probably produce a bad box):
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\section[This is some long text and probably it will be broken]{This is some long text and probably\\ it will be broken}
\section{\sloppy This is some long text and probably it~will~be~broken}
\end{document}
I've just released soulpos, which allows this with a different approach based on savepos (pdftex or compatible required). Two passes are required:
\documentclass[two column]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,soul}
\usepackage{soulpos}
\ulposdef{\ulnumaux}{%
$\underset{\saveulnum}{\rule[-.7ex]{\ulwidth}{.4pt}}$}
\newcommand{\ulnum}[2]{%
\def\saveulnum{#1}%
\ulnumaux{#2}}
\begin{document}
\ulnum{4}{This is short text}
\ulnum{6}{I want something to look like this text does, but I
don't want to manually break lines.} More. \ulnum{7}{And more text here.}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Tilde symbols can be used to prevent line breaks between words, for example
To prevent a word from being split up and hyphenated, you can use a box: