[OS X TeX] How to prevent word hyphenation or force line break in table of contents

[scheissenochmal2003 at yahoo.de]

For a quick and dirty fix, you can use

\section[The Lotka-Volterra Theory for the Growth of Two \\ Conflicting 
Populations]{The Lotka-Volterra Theory for the Growth of Two Conflicting 
Populations}

The optional argument in [] is used for TOC generation.

You can achieve the same by using \section*{yoursection} and 
\addtocontentsline{toc}{section}{yoursection-as-in-toc}, but probably 
you will need to increase the section counter as well.

Best,
S

Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> My publisher, as I imagine publishers often do, has made yet another 
> request that I have struggled with, and that is with regards to the 
> table of contents. They don't want any word breaks to occur in the 
> table, or for that matter section headings throughout the book in 
> general. In the particular case in point, the section that causes the 
> problem is:
> 
> \section{The Lotka-Volterra Theory for the Growth of Two Conflicting 
> Populations}
> 
> In the text, this gets broken nicely between Two and Conflicting. In the 
> table of contents however, LaTeX changes breaks the line up by 
> hyphenating at Pop-ulations. What I would really like to do is tell 
> LaTeX to break between Conflicting and Populations, but all my numerous 
> attempts have not succeeded.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> Haris Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Hanover College