On 12/7/2014 7:14 PM, David Carlisle wrote:
If adding markup rather than a general setting is acceptable you can use

\mbox{-}abcd

I see that this works--I had not expected it to, so I didn't even try. What I did try was
   \mbox{-abcd}
which certainly worked, but had other drawbacks for my particular situation.

Why does putting the leading dash inside a box prevent a line break between it and the following word?
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