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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label wdnohyph</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Preventing hyphenation of a particular word</h3>
+<p/>It&rsquo;s quite possible for (<em>any</em>) hyphenation of a particular word
+to seem &ldquo;completely wrong&rdquo;, so that you want to prevent it being
+hyphenated.
+<p/>If the word occurs in just one place, put it in a box:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+\mbox{oddword}
+</pre>
+</blockquote><p>
+(Plain TeX users should use <code>\</code><code>hbox</code>, and take care at the start
+of paragraphs.) However, boxing the word is not really advisable
+unless you are sure it only occurs once.
+<p/>If the word occurs commonly, the best choice is to assert a
+non-hyphenation for it:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+\hyphenation{oddword}
+</pre>
+</blockquote><p>
+This hyphenation exception (with no break points) will be used in
+preference to what TeX&rsquo;s hyphenation algorithm may come up with.
+<p/>In a multilingual document, repeat the exception specification for
+each language the word may appear in. So:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+\usepackage[french,english]{babel}
+\selectlanguage{english}
+\hyphenation{oddword}
+\selectlanguage{french}
+\hyphenation{oddword}
+</pre>
+</blockquote><p>
+(note that <i>babel</i> will select the default language for the
+document &mdash; English, in this case &mdash; at <code>\</code><code>begin{document}</code>.)
+<p/>A particular instance of this requirement is avoiding the hyphenation
+of acronyms; a general rule for those that concoct acronyms seems to
+be to make the capital-letter sequence read as near as is possible
+like a &ldquo;real&rdquo; word, but hyphenating an acronym often looks silly.
+The TeX flag <code>\</code><code>uchyph</code> is designed for suppressing such
+behaviour:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+\uchyph=0
+</pre>
+</blockquote><p>
+will stop hyphenation of upper-case words. (Note that Plain TeX
+syntax is needed here: there&rsquo;s no LaTeX alternative for setting
+this value.)
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wdnohyph">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=wdnohyph</a>
+</body>