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   The `\-' command tells LaTeX that it may hyphenate the word at that
point.  LaTeX is very good at hyphenating, and it will usually find all
correct hyphenation points.  The `\-' command is used for the
exceptional cases.

   Note that when you insert `\-' commands in a word, the word will
only be hyphenated at those points and not at any of the hyphenation
points that LaTeX might otherwise have chosen.