[texhax] documentclass letter name disable pagebreak

[Philip TAYLOR]

Sorry, John, I know next to nothing about LaTeX
(many would say : "even less" !).  I suspect it
is the final \\ that is causing problems; can you
try removing it ?

brock at quantifier.org wrote:
>>> Question: How do I disable this linebreaking behavior, only in the \name{} field, so that the whole title sits on one line?
>>
>> How about :
>>
>>> \name{John Doe \\
>>> \hbox {John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation} \\}
>
> Thank you. I'm running pdflatex using miktex (my first day using miktex). using \hbox, it complains that: "! LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end."
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