Questions tagged [discretionary]
{discretionary} is for questions about the TeX primitive \discretionary (or variants thereof, such as LaTeX's \- shortcut), used to typeset text conditionally in a line break or otherwise. Questions about {discretionary} may also use the {line-breaking} and/or {hyphenation} tags, if appropriate. Questions about discretionary ligatures should be tagged {ligatures} instead.
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Replacing \kern1em with $\hookrightarrow$ in macro using \discretionary gives ‘Improper discretionary list’ error. How to solve this problem?
I adapted Skillmon’s solution from my previous question for automatically breaking long Python module names at dots inside \texttt{…} in a table. His \newcolumntype uses \newcolumntype\pymod[1] {>...
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how to make a dollar sign in a .pdf in emtex [duplicate]
For example using emtex to create a .tex file to got to a .pdf where i want a dollar sign to appear in the .pdf file. But since the $ is a special symbol then it seems that it would be impossible to ...
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\babelhyphenation: why does rasing a penalty lead to a break?
Feeding \documentclass[ngerman]{article} \textwidth=104.2mm \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \babelprovide[hyphenrules=ngerman-x-latest]{ngerman}%%% according to the documentation of ...
user292998
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Guideline on setting hyphenation preferences in German compounds
Let's say we wish to provide different priorities of hyphenation points in long compound words in German. Here is what we tried out for now: \documentclass[ngerman]{article} \usepackage{iftex} \...
user282514
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Trying to assign priorities to different breaking points in a word. Discretionary broken?
I try to assign priorities to different breaking points in a word. To this end, I work around the bug Soft hyphens with priority don't change style with their environment but should do so and ...
user224332
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Soft hyphens with priority don't change style with their environment but should do so
Feeding \documentclass{article} \pagestyle{empty} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} %%% The following 3 lines may be uncommented; it doesn't really matter. %\hyphenpenalty=49% one less than the default ...
user224332
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Combining internal hyphenation of words with \discretionary
I have been transcribing an old, public-domain novel and am attempting to typeset it using Latex as close as I can to the original formatting of the book. I've taken Memoir template and am modifying ...
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the discretionary of the word `difficult'
Is the discretionary of the word difficult di\discretionary{f-}{fi}{ffi}cult equivalent to dif\-ficult (or dif\discretionary{-}{}{})?
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How to find out if a break occurred at a manually inserted \discretionary?
How to find out if a break occurred at a manually inserted \discretionary? I can't do it by assignments within the arguments of \discretionary—assignments are finished before decision about breaking ...
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LuaTeX, \discretionary, and tcolorbox
The following MWE renders differently in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX: XeLaTeX has a line break, but LuaLaTeX doesn't. pdfLaTeX produces the same result as XeLaTeX. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{...
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Nested \discretionary-ies in (Xe)LaTex resulting an error
I want to set an automatic hyphenation for the Armenian word յանդգնել in XeLaTeX with \discretionary. The problem is, that there are four consonants in a row, and the Armenian language has very ...
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LuaTeX: UTF-8 character extraction, is one way more accurate and/or preferable than another
While experimenting ways to extract UTF-8 character strings from TeX boxes, I found a post from user micahl-h21 here: UTF-8 text extraction. After looking at the way glyph data is stored in the ...
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How does `\discretionary` work?
In poking around in someone else's package, I found the \discretionary command being used quite a lot. I wanted to hook into the code being used in one of its arguments, but found that my code got ...
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Typesetting a comma unless before a line break
I'm trying to create a template (.sty file) that will typeset [value of macro 1], [value of macro 2] if this expression does not exceed the length of the line, and [value of macro 1] [value of macro ...
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How to change color inside `\discretionary` with luacolor?
I'm working on applying the answer to my question about color and ligatures and have run into a problem when the color change is supposed to happen inside a discretionary. Boiled down to a MWE and it ...
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