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That's a very clear explanation. Thanks again.

Thank you for your response.

Please tell me if I am correct: the original sentence from the lshort guide actually means, "only points in the word marked with a '\-' will be be allowed to be hyphenated." If this is correct, does this mean that \hyphenation{} hyphenation points are overruled by ...

From the Not so Short Introduction to LaTeX: The command \- inserts a discretionary hyphen into a word. This also becomes the only point hyphenation is allowed in this word.

I am testing the behavior of "\-". If I make a very long word and insert "\-" in between every single letter, I get some ...

I suspect the problem has something to do with the fact that unless the text width were exactly right that 40 a's fit it perfectly, LaTeX wouldn't hyphenate it, because hyphenating it would just replace an overfull box with an underfull box.

I agree that it would be nice to know why you're doing ...

It could be helpful to know what you are after (DNA sequences?). At the moment I see no sense in what you are doing so I'm toiling with a solution.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

It's just a simple example I made up to test the function of \hyphenation{}. I don't understand why ...

I created a new word: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa". That's 80 'a's.

In the preamble I have \hyphenation{aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa} --that is, I specified a hyphen after the 40th 'a'.

In ...

Stefan_K wrote:Hi hekoushui,

welcome to the board!

• fleqn: flush left equations
• leqno: left equation numbers

Stefan

Thanks Stefan!

Hi everyone,

I will have difficulty remembering these if I don't know what they stand for. I couldn't find it online.

thanks.