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 > <[email protected]> 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
