Re: Hyphenation in technical documentation
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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