[tex-hyphen] Why does "\-" not work?

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> If before the word to be hyphenated I have the two subsequent commands:
> 
> \paragraph{ddd}
> ddd
> \flushleft
> 
> then that blocks any sort of hypenating. Commenting out any of these two commands solves the problem. 

  It’s likely that your problem is simply a consequence of TeX not
hyphenating the first word in a paragraph (except for LuaTeX), and you
may run into this in other situations.

	Best,

		Arthur