Text Formatting ⇒ Definition caption crosses column boundaries

[Sadeq]

I have a two-column page, and defined a ``theorem like'' environment for my definitions:

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\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\newtheorem{definition}{Definition}
\begin{document}
    \noindent
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod ...
  
    \begin{definition}[A very long caption for the definition goes here]
        Definition body here...
    \end{definition}
\end{document} 

If you compile the above snippet, you'll see that Definition's caption crosses column boundaries.

How can I fix this?

[Sadeq]

This forum used to be much more active!
I was expecting a workaround within several hours, but it's been several days and no response.

Could anyone help me on this, please?

[localghost]

This forum used to be much more active!
I was expecting a workaround within several hours, but it's been several days and no response. [...]

With regard to your join date I think that you are not really qualified to gage that. Take into account that recently there has been Christmas and turn of the year so that many board members may be absent for holidays.

Concerning your problem you should use packages like amsthm to balance this weakness of vanilla LaTeX and get the desired result.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twocolumn,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\theoremstyle{definition}
  \newtheorem{definition}{Definition}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \begin{definition}[A very long caption for the definition goes here]
    \blindtext
  \end{definition}
\end{document}

You can also try the ntheorem package to format such constructions.


Best regards
Thorsten

[Sadeq]

This forum used to be much more active!
I was expecting a workaround within several hours, but it's been several days and no response. [...]

With regard to your join date I think that you are not really qualified to gage that. Take into account that recently there has been Christmas and turn of the year so that many board members may be absent for holidays.

Hey, no offense! I didn't mean that the forum is dead! I just wanted to encourage people to help me, be it holiday or not

Anyway, I'm very thankful for your answer. Problem solved!