[OS X TeX] hyphenation for mathmode containing words

[Bob Yu]

Dear all,
I have a very long word with math mode in between. How can I use
hyphenation?

for example

\hyphenation{mac-macmac-mac$_{2}$mac-mac} this does not work.

Thanks a lot!

Bob
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