[OS X TeX] hyphenation for mathmode containing words

David Watson dewatson at me.com
Mon Aug 3 09:42:44 EDT 2009


On Aug 2, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Bob Yu wrote:

> 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.

Can you try suggesting hyphenation by using \- ?
For example
     mac\-macmac\-mac$_{2}$\-mac\-mac



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