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I have words in my text that contains underscores and that exceeds the boundaries of the page

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the word is typed in the text as

FOS\_SOCIAL\_SCIENCE

I want the word to be able to hyphenate at the underscore boundaries.

I have tried:

\hyphenation{FOS-\_-NA-TU-RAL-\_-SCIEN-CE}

but pdfLatex return the following error

Improper \hyphenation will be flushed. \hyphenation{FOS-_

I don't want to use the underscore package due to incompatibilities

I also tried 

\renewcommand{\_}{%
    \textunderscore\nobreak\hspace{0pt}%
}

which doesn't work: compile without errors but the word is not hyphenated

I also tried:

\def\_{\_\allowbreak\hspace{0pt}}

which does not compile. The error message is:

TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]. \item[FOS_NATURAL_SCIENCE]

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Why do you use \nobreak if you want something to break? Without it it works as expected:

\documentclass{article}

\textwidth=1mm
\begin{document}
FOS\_SOCIAL\_SCIENCE   

\renewcommand{\_}{%
    \textunderscore\nobreak\hspace{0pt}%
}

FOS\_SOCIAL\_SCIENCE

\renewcommand{\_}{%
    \textunderscore\hspace{0pt}%
}

FOS\_SOCIAL\_SCIENCE

\end{document}

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  • It doesn't wotk with without the nobreak option. I think it is unable to break in points other than the underscore, don't know why. I have \documentclass[12pt, a4paper, draft]{scrbook} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} as the first lines of the preamble – robertspierre Dec 1 '17 at 9:10
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    It works in my example as you can see in the picture. If it doesn't work for you you will have to make a complete example. – Ulrike Fischer Dec 1 '17 at 9:12
  • The problem was only with $\text{FOS\_NATURAL\_SCIENCE}$. Removing the math environment and defining _ as you did solved the problem – robertspierre Dec 1 '17 at 9:20

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