[texhax] Redefining hyphenchar

[Sridhar M.A.]

On 5/9/05, P.Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
This is where I said I am a novice. I put the above in the preamble of
a document which does not include any fancy fonts, etc. Still, I get
the hyphen as '-' rather than an invisible character. Do I need to do
some more stuff before I can get this working correctly?

Regards,

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Sridhar M.A.