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Re: Hyphenation in technical documentation

Subject: Re: Hyphenation in technical documentation
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:07:20 -0500




Kathy Underwood wrote:

As in so many cases, it depends.

At my company, we use the Chicago Manual of Style. CMS has for some years argued for the trend towards fewer hyphenations--notwithstanding a lengthy section on hyphenation. This makes a lot of sense (my favorite examples of words better written as closed rather than hyphenated are online and database). But CMS is not absolutist on the topic. I don't know any style manual (NYT, APA, CBE, etc.) that is absolutist. It's always a matter of case by case--and check the dictionary when in doubt.




Kathy, the question wasn't on whether to use more or fewer grammatical hyphens. Like you, I go with CMS; but conventions are subject to evolution.

The question was about the hyphens used to break a word at the end of a typeset line.

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