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I regularly write chemistry documents with odd words in them. Is there a way to know if LaTeX knows it can hyphenate a word? I'm wondering as the person beside me just discovered that the person whose thesis he is using as a base told LaTeX how to hyphenate polymer, which he thought would be common enough that LaTeX would know it already.

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    tex<enter>\showhyphens{polymer} gives poly-mer here. Maybe you use some customisations which prevent the hyphenation in this case. – Marco Jan 27 '14 at 19:50
  • @marco So I can enter any word and see if it needs a custom definition? – Canageek Jan 27 '14 at 19:52
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    hyphenation actually depends on what language (and associated patterns) are in effect. if babel is being used with a language other than u.s. english, the results may be different. in any event, \showhyphens{...} when requested in the same environment (but without any additional \hyphenation{...} exceptions) should give the canonical result. – barbara beeton Jan 27 '14 at 19:55
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    Duplicate? Display hyphenation options for a specific word (Yep, it's my question, that's how I know so quickly that it exists ;)) – yo' Jan 27 '14 at 19:55

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