Time for action – stating division points for words

No matter how good the justification skill is, text in very narrow columns is extremely hard to justify. The previous example showed it pitiless. We will tell LaTeX how a word could be divided:

1. Insert the following line into the preamble of the previous example:

   \hyphenation{acro-nym}

2. Typeset and look at the output:

   

What just happened?

We've told LaTeX that the word acronym may have a division point between acro and nym. That means a hyphen might be put after acro at the end of the line and nym goes to the following line.

The \hyphenation command tells LaTeX where the division points of a word may be. Its argument may contain several words separated by spaces. For each word, we can indicate several points. For instance we could extend the argument by more division points and more word variants like this:

\hyphenation{ac-ro-nym ac-ro-nym-ic a-cro-nym-i-cal-ly}

You could also indicate division points in the body text by inserting a backslash followed...