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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Break Commands (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Break Commands (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Break Commands (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Breaks.html" rel="up" title="Breaks"> <link href="Line-Breaks.html" rel="next" title="Line Breaks"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="Break-Commands"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Line-Breaks.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@*</code> and <code>@/</code>: Generate and Allow Line Breaks</a>, Up: <a href="Breaks.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Forcing and Preventing Breaks</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Break-Commands-1"></span><h3 class="section">12.1 Break Commands</h3> <p>The break commands create or allow line and paragraph breaks: </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dt><span><code>@*</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Force a line break. </p> </dd> <dt><span><code>@sp <var>n</var></code></span></dt> <dd><p>Skip <var>n</var> blank lines. </p> </dd> <dt><span><code>@-</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Insert a discretionary hyphen. </p> </dd> <dt><span><code>@hyphenation{<var>hy-phen-a-ted words</var>}</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Define hyphen points in <var>hy-phen-a-ted words</var>. </p></dd> </dl> <p>These commands hold text together on a single line: </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dt><span><code>@w{<var>text</var>}</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Prevent <var>text</var> from being split and hyphenated across two lines. </p> </dd> <dt><span><code>@tie{}</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Insert a normal interword space at which a line break may not occur. </p></dd> </dl> <p>The pagination commands apply only to printed output, since other output formats do not have pages. </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dt><span><code>@page</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Start a new page. </p> </dd> <dt><span><code>@group</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Hold text together that must appear on one page. </p> </dd> <dt><span><code>@need <var>mils</var></code></span></dt> <dd><p>Start a new page if not enough space on this one. </p></dd> </dl> </div> </body> </html>