Theses, Books, Title pages ⇒ equation wrapping for Masters/Doctoral Thesis

[confused_user]

I'm having problems with inline equations in the "Masters/Doctoral Thesis" template. Typing a line of the form:

Welcome to this \LaTeX{} Thesis Template, a beautiful and easy to $\int dx \cos(x)\sin(x), \exp\left( \frac{1}{2} \right)$ use template for writing a thesis using the \LaTeX{} typesetting system.

results in an equation which overflows over the margin.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

[Johannes_B]

That's normal. LaTeX cannot decide where to break the line, it is a computer program. Easiest thing to do: Rewrite the paragraph or add a manual line break.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the forum!

Actually, LaTeX can automatically break such inline formulas. It knows good places for line breaks, so it would do a line break at equal signs =, relation signs in general, plus + and minus -, but not just anywhere because it could harm the meaning otherwise. You could try that by inserting = or +, just for fun.

If there's no place where LaTeX can see a break, you can allow the break yourself by ending end starting the math mode, such as: $\int dx $ $ \cos(x)\sin(x)$. or you simply tell it to LaTeX by inserting \allowbreak everywhere you would allow it - LaTeX would choose the best.

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$\int dx\allowbreak \cos(x)\allowbreak\sin(x)

But I would be careful: such longer formulas should be displayed in its own paragraph, such as by

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Welcome to this \LaTeX{} Thesis Template, a beautiful and easy to
\[
  \int dx \cos(x)\sin(x), \exp\left( \frac{1}{2} \right)
\]
use template for writing a thesis using the \LaTeX{} typesetting system.

That's what good math books do: they display equations on their own, outside the text, to keep the text flow readable and the math understandable.

Stefan

[confused_user]

Thanks for the rapid answer, I understand the problem