hi bill, there's a way to make \linebreak into a suggestion, rather than a command. off the top of my head, i can't remember how, but leslie lamport's book should go into that in depth.
pete ps- there are only two necessary books on latex. the first is leslie lamport's book. is a _must_ for anyone who spends even a small amount of time with latex: http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.html?id=0201529831&phpSID=5543e20c30290fdcb16d7d47668ccb02 then there's the "latex companion". it is a companion to leslie lamport's book. where leslie's book is small and light reading, goossens' book is long and meant to be a reference rather than read. it's a must for anyone who wants to do intermediate to advanced stuff with latex. http://www.nerdbooks.com/item.html?id=0201541998&phpSID=5543e20c30290fdcb16d7d47668ccb02 pps- got off my @ss and looked it up. page 95 of leslie lamport: \linebreak[0]: if it's convenient, please consider line breaking here. \linebreak[1]: please line break here. \linebreak[2]: line break here. \linebreak[3]: you better line break here or there's hell to pay \linebreak[4]: hello latex, this is god speaking. thou shalt line break. begin nbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is there a way to force a string to break at a certain length, > regardless as to whether it contains spaces? > > In other words, some data being printed into columns of a table > word wrap ok, because it's multiple words: > > This is a really long spaced > entry for the column > > > Others mess up the table (a longtable with specifically assigned widths): > > Thisisareallylongspacelessentryforthecolumn > > > Any way to just force that 2nd kind of text to break at the column's > width? > > > (The data really should be changed, but that's not up to me, > unfortunately. <:^( ) > > > -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
