\hyphenation (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 9.7 `\hyphenation`

Synopsis:

    \hyphenation{word1 ...}

Declares allowed hyphenation points within the words in the list. The words in that list are separated by spaces. Show permitted points for hyphenation with a dash character, `-`.

Here is an example:

    \hyphenation{hat-er il-lit-e-ra-ti tru-th-i-ness}

Use lowercase letters. TeX will only hyphenate if the word matches exactly. Multiple `\hyphenation` commands accumulate.

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