Text Formatting ⇒ no hyphentation for one word

[koszta5]

Hi latex folk,

I am using hyphenation for my document but I need to turn it off for some particular words (like POSIX or openVPN). I want to use it for the rest of the document but I want POSIX or openVPN to always "stick together". How can I achieve that?

thanks

[meho_r]

One way would be to put (preferably after \begin{document}) the following code:

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\hyphenation{posix openvpn}

This command allows you to specify custom hyphenation points and, if there are none, like in this case, it'll make sure the word isn't hyphenated at all.

Another way might be the manual one: to use \mbox{}:

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\mbox{POSIX}
\mbox{openVPN}

or even to create a custom command which you will use for all those words, e.g.

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\newcommand{\nohyph}[1]{\mbox{#1}}

\nohyph{POSIX}, \nohyph{openVPN} ...

[Frits]

Put the following in your preamble:

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\hyphenation{openVPN}
\hyphenation{POSIX}

Also, with the hyphenat package you can specify words that will not be hyphenated once by specifying in your document.

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\nohyphens{openVPN}

EDIT: beaten by the clock and meho_r

[meho_r]

I wouldn't place \hyphenation command in the preamble, but after \begin{document}. The reason is that, in case he's using XeLaTeX and Polyglossia, \hyphenation command in the preamble can easily be missed/ignored.

[koszta5]

thank you all

[localghost]

thank you all […]

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Thorsten