Line & Page Breaking

LaTeX2e help 1.6

## 2.10: Line & Page Breaking

The first thing LaTeX does when processing ordinary text is to translate your input file into a string of glyphs and spaces. To produce a printed document, this string must be broken into lines, and these lines must be broken into pages. In some environments, you do the line breaking yourself with the `\\` command, but LaTeX usually does it for you.

- \\ Start a new line.
- \- (hyphenation) Insert explicit hyphenation.
- \cleardoublepage Start a new right-hand page.
- \clearpage Start a new page.
- \enlargethispage Enlarge the current page a bit.
- \fussy Be fussy about line breaking.
- \hyphenation Tell LaTeX how to hyphenate a word.
- \linebreak Break the line.
- \newline Break the line prematurely.
- \newpage Start a new page.
- \nolinebreak Don't break the current line.
- \nopagebreak Don't make a page break here.
- \pagebreak Please make a page break here.
- \sloppy Be sloppy about line breaking.