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[Joshua Grauman]

Thanks. I had tried setting \hyphenpenalty to 0, but didn't know about 
\exhyphenpenalty... Now this makes sense.

Josh

>> Sorry, I must correct myself. When I put the parameters more extreme I 
>> do see that it sometimes breaks a line after a maqqef. I don't know why 
>> it is less frequent, but it is working. Sorry about that.
>
> It'll be less frequent, especially with stretchable \leftskip (ragged-
> left setting rather than full justification) because TeX prefers to
> break at spaces rather than hyphens if possible. (And this code is
> treating maqqef like a literal hyphen in the text.)
>
> You can change this by adjusting \exhyphenpenalty (the "penalty" for
> breaking at an explicit hyphen). If you set this to zero, then
> breaking at maqqef will be considered equally acceptable to breaking
> at a space.
>
> This is all explained in The TeXbook, if you want to understand the
> full range of parameters and options you can experiment with. :)
>
> JK