How to prevent LaTeX from hyphenating words containing a dash?

Question

I would like to globally prevent LaTeX from hyphenating 'Objective-C'. I am aware of the \hyphenation command, but I don't see how I can make use of it. If I pass 'Objective-C' to this command, the dash will be treated as a hint to hyphenate the word there.

One solution I found is wrapping Objective-C into an mbox each time I use it. However, the document I am writing contains this name a lot, and wrapping it into an mbox each time is ugly (as is defining a command and using this over and over again in the source code).

Presuppose

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Answer 1

Why is defining a new command ugly? It's how \LaTeX\ defines itself.

\def\ObjectiveC{\mbox{Objective-C}}

Colchester

Thanks! I guess there really is no other way, unfortunately. – Presuppose

Answer 2

Use \nobreakdash. That's what LyX produces when I insert a nonbreakingdash and convert it to tex.

Tong

Answer 3

As suggested here, you could define a command like this:

 \newcommand\dash{\nobreakdash-\hspace{0pt}}

and use it like this

Consider the $n$\dash dimensional manifold ... 

Also, you could use the babel package and use "~ as a protected hyphen. I'm not sure if using babel is advisable when writing in english, though.

Oxytocic

Thanks for your suggestions! All of that works, but can not be defined globally, like the \mbox solution :( – Presuppose