(latex2e.info)Line breaking

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9 Line breaking
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The first thing LaTeX does when processing ordinary text is to translate
your input file into a sequence of glyphs and spaces.  To produce a
printed document, this sequence must be broken into lines (and these
lines must be broken into pages).

   LaTeX usually does the line (and page) breaking in the text body for
you but in some environments you manually force line breaks.

   A common workflow is to get a final version of the document content
before taking a final pass through and considering line breaks (and page
breaks).  This differs from word processing, where you are formatting
text as you input it.  Putting these off until the end prevents a lot of
fiddling with breaks that will change anyway.

\\

Start a new line.

\obeycr & \restorecr

Make each input line start a new output line.

\newline

Break the line

\- (hyphenation)

Insert explicit hyphenation.

\discretionary

Explicit control of the hyphen character.

\fussy & \sloppy

Be more or less particular with line breaking.

\hyphenation

Tell LaTeX how to hyphenate a word.

\linebreak & \nolinebreak

Forcing & avoiding line breaks.