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Summary Of: Hyphen
Spaces should not be placed between a hyphen and either of the words it connects except when using a suspended or... The use of the hyphen in English compound nouns and verbs has... at the nearest breakpoint between syllables and a hyphen inserted to indicate that the letters form a word fragment... do not require a hyphen since the prefix is viewed as fully fused... A hyphen is mandatory when a prefix is applied to a proper... noun compound modifiers are also written without a hyphen when no confusion is likely... a hyphen is typically not used... and recommend the hyphen when the compound adjective follows the verb... then a hyphen may be used for clarity... sometimes replaces the hyphen in hyphenated compounds if either of its constituent parts is already hyphenated or contains a... A hyphen may be used to connect groups of numbers... The hyphen is sometimes used to hide letters in words... length to fit the frame by inserting a hyphen as the last element at the right side margin... His hyphen appears throughout the Bible as a short... As the hyphen ought not to be confused with this... so the hyphen could become one horizontal stroke... slightly tilted slash for a hyphen which they added at the end of a line where they broke the word... to indicate a hyphen that was actually a part of the phrase but just happened to fall at the... the hyphen was encoded as character 45... Unicode also encodes the hyphen and minus separately... since the Unicode hyphen is awkward to enter on normal keyboards... a hyphen that is always displayed and printed is called a... accepts any text and automatically inserts the soft hyphen into the right positions... a system may consider the soft hyphen to be a point at which a word may be broken... and display a hyphen at the end of the broken line... line is not broken at that point the hyphen is not displayed... the soft hyphen is at position... Most text systems consider a hyphen to be a word boundary and a valid point at which to break a line... parameter by itself that is only a single hyphen without any letters usually means that a program is supposed to handle data coming from... use the hyphen to delineate parts within a written date... Unix also uses a space followed by a hyphen to introduce switches... Unicode interpretation of SOFT HYPHEN breaks ISO 8859... Encyclodia Page On: Hyphen
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