LaTeX Hypenation Syntax

LaTeX users have very few documentation and help pages (or support pages) compared to, say, Microsoft Word users have. Usually, the tool of choice to get help on syntax and other annoyances in LaTeX is to type the problem into Google and hope the Big G won't fail us. Afterall, given the fewerness of documentations, even the top Google results may not contain the right answer -- as in this case of LaTeX hypenation.


Clicking on the top link takes me to this page, where it listed an example on how to use LaTeX hypenation as follow:
\hyphenation{words}The \hyphenation command declares allowed hyphenation points, where words is a list of words, separated by spaces, in which each hyphenation point is indicated by a - character. For example
\hyphenation{fortran,er-go-no-mic}indicates that "fortran" cannot be hyphenated and indicates allowed hyphenation points for "ergonomic".

... and I keep on getting "Not a Letter" Error when I try to compile my tex file. The fact is it should read:

\hypenation{fortran er-go-no-mic} 

without any comma but with spaces. Cheers !!!

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