9.5 \slash: breakable ‘/

The \slash command produces a ‘/’ character and then a penalty of the same value as an explicit ‘-’ character (\exhyphenpenalty). This allows TeX to break a line at the ‘/’, similar to a hyphen. Hyphenation is allowed in the word part preceding the ‘/’, but not after. For example:

The input\slash output of the program is complicated.

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