[texhax] Hyphenation in tabular environments

[Martin Schröder]

2007/11/16, Paul Cook <pcook at caltech.edu>:
> I'm trying to get reasonable (if not necessarily perfect) hyphenation in
> tabular environments in LaTeX2e. Currently, for long words in thin
> columns, I only get hyphenation if I explicitly indicate hyphenation
> locations with \-

TeX doesn't hypenate the first work in a paragraph (and a tabular cell
is a paragraph).
Try inserting \hbox{}. And have a look at the ragged2e package.

Best
   Martin