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

[Charilaos Skiadas]

Thanks, I had already tried that and it didn't work. For some reason,  
it just increased the distance between Two and Conflicting. I tried  
all sorts of ways of trying to force the line break, but none of them  
worked for some reason. It might be a consequence of using the  
publisher's style file. Anyhow, this made me go back and rethink  
things, and the following worked:

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

It adds just enough space so that Populations goes by itself on the  
line below, as I wanted.

Thanks to both of you for your suggestions.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

On Aug 30, 2008, at 4:16 PM, scheissenochmal2003 at yahoo.de wrote:

> 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
>