LaTeX Line and Page Breaking
The first thing LaTeX does when processing ordinary text is to
translate your input file into a string of glyphs and spaces. To
produce a printed document, this string must be broken into lines, and
these lines must be broken into pages. In some environments, you do
the line breaking yourself with the \\ command, but LaTeX usually does
it for you. The available commands are
- \\ start a new paragraph.
- \\* start a new line but not a new
paragraph.
- \- OK to hyphenate a word here.
- \cleardoublepage flush all material and
start a new page, start new odd numbered page.
- \clearpage plush all material and start a new
page.
- \hyphenation enter a sequence pf exceptional
hyphenations.
- \linebreak allow to break the line here.
- \newline request a new line.
- \newpage request a new page.
- \nolinebreak no line break should happen
here.
- \nopagebreak no page break should happen
here.
- \pagebreak encourage page break.
\\[*][extra-space]
The \\ command tells LaTeX to start a new line. It has an optional
argument, extra-space, that specifies how much extra vertical space is
to be inserted before the next line. This can be a negative amount.
The \\* command is the same as the ordinary \\ command except that it
tells LaTeX not to start a new page after the line.
The \- command tells LaTeX that it may hyphenate the word at that
point. LaTeX is very good at hyphenating, and it will usually find
all correct hyphenation points. The \- command is used for the
exceptional cases, as e.g.
man\-u\-script
The \cleardoublepage command ends the current page and causes all
figures and tables that have so far appeared in the input to be
printed. In a two-sided printing style, it also makes the next page a
right-hand (odd-numbered) page, producing a blank page if necessary.
The \clearpage command ends the current page and causes all figures
and tables that have so far appeared in the input to be printed.
\hyphenation{words}
The \hyphenation command declares allowed hyphenation points, where
words is a list of words, separated by spaces, in which each
hyphenation point is indicated by a - character, e.g.
\hyphenation{man-u-script man-u-stripts ap-pen-dix}
\linebreak[number]
The \linebreak command tells LaTeX to break the current line at the
point of the command. With the optional argument, number, you can
convert the \linebreak command from a demand to a request. The number
must be a number from 0 to 4. The higher the number, the more
insistent the request is.
The \linebreak command causes LaTeX to stretch the line so it extends
to the right margin.
The \newline command breaks the line right where it is. The \newline
command can be used only in paragraph mode.
The \newpage command ends the current page.
\nolinebreak[number]
The \nolinebreak command prevents LaTeX from breaking the current line
at the point of the command. With the optional argument, number, you
can convert the \nolinebreak command from a demand to a request. The
number must be a number from 0 to 4. The higher the number, the more
insistent the request is.
\nopagebreak[number]
The \nopagebreak command prevents LaTeX form breaking the current page
at the point of the command. With the optional argument, number, you
can convert the \nopagebreak command from a demand to a request. The
number must be a number from 0 to 4. The higher the number, the more
insistent the request is.
\pagebreak[number]
The \pagebreak command tells LaTeX to break the current page at the
point of the command. With the optional argument, number, you can
convert the \pagebreak command from a demand to a request. The number
must be a number from 0 to 4. The higher the number, the more
insistent the request is.
