Page Layout

bkarpuz · Post by **bkarpuz** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:07 pm

Dear friends,

how can I divide a section title into two lines if the title is very long.
please see the code below.

\tableofcontents

\section*{\centering MyLongSectionTitleNeedsToBeSplittedIntoTwoLines}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{MyLongSectionTitleNeedsToBeSplittedIntoTwoLines}

thanks.

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kaiserkarl13 · Post by **kaiserkarl13** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:28 am

This looks like a job for optional hyphens:

Code: Select all

\tableofcontents

\section*{\centering My\-Really\-Really\-Really\-Really\-Long\-Section\-Title\-Needs\-To\-Be\-Splitted\-Into\-Two\-Lines}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{My\-Really\-Really\-Really\-Really\-Long\-Sectio-Title\-Needs\-To\-Be\-Splitted\-Into\-Two\-Lines}

Incidentally, it's only having trouble because you have no spaces in the word. If you give it a title with spaces, TeX will break the lines automatically.

bkarpuz · Post by **bkarpuz** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:31 am

kaiserkarl13 wrote:This looks like a job for optional hyphens:
Code: Select all
\tableofcontents

\section*{\centering My\-Really\-Really\-Really\-Really\-Long\-Section\-Title\-Needs\-To\-Be\-Splitted\-Into\-Two\-Lines}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{My\-Really\-Really\-Really\-Really\-Long\-Sectio-Title\-Needs\-To\-Be\-Splitted\-Into\-Two\-Lines}
Incidentally, it's only having trouble because you have no spaces in the word. If you give it a title with spaces, TeX will break the lines automatically.

Thanks it worked.

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