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

[Adrian Fronda]

Thank you Arthur for your idea.

The problem is that no word is hyphenated after the lines quoted below. Also when I comment out \flushleft, the hyphenating does happen. 

Again, many thanks,
Adrian


> On 22 Aug 2016, at 17:11, Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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