How to represent class names in LaTeX?

latex classname hyphenation texttt
Touko picture Touko · Aug 25, 2009 · Viewed 10k times · Source

what do you see as best way of presenting class names in LaTeX documents (writing about a piece of software).

I'm currently using \texttt (monospaced typewrite font) which otherwise works fine but my class names end up goind "over" the margins.

So, I'm asking for either

  • an alternative (good-looking) way of representing the class names
  • way to make sure my classnames won't go over the margins

br, Touko

Answer

Martin B picture Martin B · Aug 25, 2009

\texttt is a good choice.

If your class names end up "going over the margins", that's because LaTeX doesn't hyphenate \texttt text by default. (You're probably getting warnings about "overfull hboxes" because of this.)

There are two possible solutions to this: Either rewrite your text so that class names don't appear at the ends of lines, or tell LaTeX to hyphenate your class names (if that's acceptable to you). For the latter, check out the hyphenat package. Try using it like this:

\usepackage[htt]{hyphenat}

You will also probably need to tell LaTeX where to hyphenate your class names, like this:

This\-Is\-My\-Long\-Class\-Name

(for class ThisIsMyLongClassName).

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