Text Formatting ⇒ hyphenat | Slash Line Break Problem with 'none' Option

[nokhbeh100]

Hi,

I am using PDFLaTeX to typeset a two-column document but there is a problem.
I do not want latex to hyphenate long words in the end of documents, so I use:

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\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}

but using none option for hyphenat will stop this package from breaking words like:

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input\slash output

to break before or after slash.

I have already read the hyphenat package help but there is no other option.
Please help me with my problem.
thanks
example:

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twocolumn]{article}
\special{papersize=164mm,234mm}
%This file is prepared and compiled by MNZ script-to-latex program
\usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
\begin{document}
\twocolumn

suffer acute pain\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}remorse\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test\slash{}test
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

For single occurences you could use \mbox{word\slash{}text}. And this works in the preamble:

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\let\stdslash\slash
\renewcommand*{\slash}{\mbox{\stdslash}}

Or

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\renewcommand*{\slash}{\nobreak\mbox{\stdslash}\nobreak}

Have a look at the spacing around the slash, as the kerning could change. Or write a macro for such words with slash, using \mbox or a feature of hyphenat.

Stefan

[nokhbeh100]

Hi, Thanks
There is a misunderstanding,
I want \slash to be able to break the words but other words be untouched.

Thanks very much

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Ok, so you could similarly redefine for inserting \allowbreak:

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\let\stdslash\slash
\renewcommand*{\slash}{\stdslash\allowbreak}

Stefan