I'd like to express the following sentence (source_location is also italic, it's not correctly rendered):
Each entry has a list of tuple: < source_location, R/W, trip_counter, occurrence, killed (explained in the later) >
My current workaround for this is:
$ \left\langle
\textit{source\_location}, \textit{R/W}, \textit{trip\_counter},
\textit{occurrence}, \textit{killed} \text{(explained in the later)}
\right\rangle $
I'm using 2-column paper. This < .. > is too long, but no line break because it is a math. How do I automatically (or manually) put line break in such case? It seems that \left\langle
and \right\rangle
should be in a single math. So, hard to break into multiple maths.
$<$
and $>$
would be an alternative, but I don't like it.
Best Answer
LaTeX does allow inline maths to break over lines by default, but there are a number of restrictions. Specifically, in your case, using
\left...\right
puts everything inside a non-breakable math group, so the first step is to replace them with either just plain\langle...\rangle
or perhaps\bigl\langle...\bigr\rangle
.However, this still isn't enough to permit linebreaking; usually that's still only allowed after relations or operators, not punctuation such as the comma. (I think this is what's going on anyway; I haven't stopped to look this up.) So you want indicate where allowable line breaks may occur by writing
\linebreak[1]
after each comma.Depending how often you have to do this, it may be preferable to write a command to wrap your "tuples" into a nice command. In order to write this in your source:
here's a definition of
\mytuple
that takes all of the above into account: