begin Shawn P. Neugebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tuesday 23 April 2002 05:28 pm, you wrote: > > begin nbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:10:13PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > \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. > > > > > > Hmm.. this doesn't do much for me. I'm not in control of the data > > > being sent. (In this case, if the people making the data would need > > > to go through the trouble of inserting a "\linebreak" command, they > > > may as well just stick a space in there instead, since it will Do The > > > Right Thing, anyway. - I'm thinking this is what I'm going to have to > > > have them do.) > > > > ok, i think i understand a bit more. can you make a parbox of a > > certain width? i think sticking everything in the parbox should give > > you the desired result. > > (fyi--would have been helpful to know up front that you didn't want > to modify the data). > > the parbox trick, which is usually so useful in controlling tables, does > not work here. it does not force a word to break, rather, it causes > an overfull \hbox situation. try it out. wow -- cool, another latex user. you must be a grad student or postdoc in one of the sciences. what department are you in?
you're absolutely right. my bad! i'd have to agree -- it can be done. but it's way beyond the abilities of any latex user i know. suggestion: 1. use shawn's suggestion. preprocess the data. 2. post to comp.text.tex. the people there will know the answer. pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech