Text Formatting ⇒ new line with math symbol

[elkon]

Hi,
I am a newbie with latex so this may be a trivial question, but one I haven't found an answer for online.

I have a document with a macro:
\newcommand{\myVar}{hello\ensuremath{\wedge}goodbye}
When I use this macro, if \myVar is near the end of the line, the text (hello^goodbye) goes beyond the normal length of the line.
I would like this macro to automatically "jump" to a new line and not go beyond normal line length.
However, I do not want to change my macro because it is used in other places.

Thank you,
Eyal

[kaiserkarl13]

The problem here is one of where to put line breaks. TeX typically prefers to have text overrun the right margin (as you're observing) rather than leave vast gaps between words (which is what Word and WordPerfect typically do). This is no different than doing something like,

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\mbox{here's my really long sentence that has no chance of not breaking it over a line yet it's forced to because of the mbox around it.}

If you don't like the line break, you'll be forced to re-write the sentence. You can tell it to break the line (if necessary) after the symbol, viz.

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\newcommand{\myVar}{hello\ensuremath{\wedge}\allowbreak{}goodbye}