Page Layout ⇒ Line Break in Section Heading without Hyphenation

[zidangus]

Ok so I have a long section heading that has two lines, however I do not like the words being broken with a hyphen, so I inserted a line break to make it look nicer on the eye. Anyway it works fine when compiling except for the ToC, where there is not no space between the word before the line break and the word after the line break. Can anyone help to rectify this, so that ToC look ok.

What I have done

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\subsection{This is the first line of the heading \\ and this is the second}

When compiled looks like this

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This is the first line of the heading
and this is the second

However TOC looks like this

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This is the first line of the headingand this is the second

any

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

sectioning commands have an optional argument which would be used for the table of contents, if specified. See Sectioning in the LaTeX manual. So you could write

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\subsection[This is the first line of the heading and this
  is the second]{This is the first line of the heading \\ and this is the second}

or use \mbox{...} to prevent hyphenation of a word.

Stefan

[zidangus]

Thanks very much Stefan_K, it works a treat, appreciate it !

[localghost]

You can format all heading levels accordingly by using the titlesec package.

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\usepackage[raggedright]{titlesec}

Now you don't have to bother any more about optional arguments and correctly formatted ToC entries.

In the classes of the KOMA-Script bundle this kind of formatting is the default setting.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten