[texhax] Redefining hyphenchar

[P.Taylor]

Not a novice question at all!

One approach would be to redefine \hyphenchar,
as in

	\hyphenchar \font = 128

This will produce an "invisible" hyphen when used
with the CM fonts or with any other fonts in which
only the first 128 positions are populated.

Philip Taylor
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Sridhar M.A. wrote:

> A novice question.
> 
> I am typesetting a document wherein I need to break words, but the
> language rules/convention dictate that hyphen character is not used. I
> want to redefine the hyphen to be a blank character. How can I achieve
> this?
> 
> Regards,
>