# Hypertext Help with LaTeX
Line and 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.

## Commands for line and page breaks

- \\
- \-
- \hyphenation

- \cleardoublepage
- \clearpage

- \newline
- \linebreak
- \nolinebreak
- \newpage
- \pagebreak
- \nopagebreak

For page numbering, see Counters
To refer to a page number in the text, see `\pageref`
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