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@w
{text}: Prevent Line Breaks@w{text}
outputs text and prohibits line breaks
within text.
You can use the @w
command to prevent TeX from automatically
hyphenating a long name or phrase that happens to fall near the end of a
line. For example:
You can copy GNU software from @w{@samp{ftp.gnu.org}}.
produces
You can copy GNU software from ‘ftp.gnu.org’.
You can also use @w
to produce a non-breakable space:
None of the formatters will break at this@w{ }space.