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According to the accepted answer of this question TeX never hyphenates words that already contain a hyphen. Nevertheless in a document here I find that the word “Modula-2” is hyphenated, as the following image shows (generated with this file using XeLaTeX, version 3.1415926-2.4-0.9998 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)).

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum Modula-2
  nisi urna, congue sed congue id, iaculis et lacus.
\end{document}

Unwanted hyphenation

Apparently I can’t use \hyphenation to prevent this; but the word appears several times so I don’t want to use \mbox either. Is there a better solution?

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TeX never hyphenates words that are explicitly hyphenated, so if that instance is hyphenated presumably the markup used is hiding the hyphen. Please always provide a small complete document that demonstrates the problem, so people can reproduce it. – David Carlisle Nov 12 '12 at 13:14
I just added a screenshot and its source file. – JC Chu Nov 12 '12 at 13:49

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By not hyphenating hyphenated words, what is meant is not adding more hyphens. What you want to prevent is line breaking at an existing hyphen for which you just need

   \exhyphenpenalty=10000

in the preamble to give an infinite penalty for breaking at an explicit hyphen

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