LyX ⇒ Is this an example of fine-tuning?

[insipidtoast]

Adding an ERT hyphenation in order to force a word to finish on the next line, so that it is not hanging out in the margin.

If so, then why should I wait until the very end of the typesetting process to fix this error?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Yes, sometimes hyphenation is not perfect and should be manually corrected. Because hyphenation places may still change during writing and correcting, it's a good idea to check hyphenation at the end.

You don't need ERT in the document for this. You can gather all extra allowed hyphenations in the document LaTeX preamble, using the \hyphenation command. In the argument, list words separated by spaces, and mark allowed hypenation points by a dash. In contrast to ERT in the document body, this will have effect for each occurrences of such a word. And you can to this also while writing, as a precaution.

Btw. ensure that you specified the language of the document, so the proper hyphenation pattern is selected, and use T1 font encoding, especially if words with special characters, such as accents, are a problem.

Stefan

[insipidtoast]

Thanks. I'll wait until the end to insert ERT hyphens.