[OS X TeX] breaking word/word/word

Morten Høgholm morten.hoegholm at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 15:55:04 EDT 2005


On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:39:59 +0200, Alain Schremmer  
<Schremmer.Alain at verizon.net> wrote:

> I have the sentence
>
>     In this course we will be dealing with objects sitting on a
>     counter/desk/table and we will represent these objects on a
>     board/notebook.
>
> and LaTeX will not break counter/desk/table which thus extends into the  
> margin. Is there a way to force it to break it?

Use \slash instead of /. Alternatively, the babel system has some methods  
to deal with this - lookup the documentation part for English.
-- 
Morten
--------------------- Info ---------------------
Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
           & FAQ: http://latex.yauh.de/faq/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Post: <mailto:MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>





More information about the MacOSX-TeX mailing list