Text Formatting ⇒ How do I: Prevent words from line break separation

[Eenzc]

Hello,

In one of my captions under a figure I have the non hypenated words in situ

Unfortunately these have been split across two lines. How do I prevent this from happening?

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\caption{RCVs recorded at \SI{40}{V.s^{-1}} of Pt/Hg electrodes in PBS. The amount of Hg plated onto the Pt surface was varied by passing (a) 1 mC, (b) 10 mC, (c) 100 mC  and (d) 1 C. In each plot the continuous line represents the initial scan of each working electrode and the broken black line represents the same electrode after 30 minutes of continuous \textit{in situ} electrochemical cleaning.}

[localghost]

There are two possible solutions.

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\mbox{in situ}
in~situ

Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Eenzc]

Thanks, that works.

[littlegolem]

Hi, I tried to use \mbox in a section title on an abbreviation I didn't want LaTeX to separate; well, it worked, but now LaTeX complains on an overfull \hbox instead since it apparently keeps the abbreviation on the same row.

Why can't it just put it on the next row? It I want to give LaTeX a hint that it can break the line before the abbreviation, is there some command I can use to do that? Thanks in advance.