Re: Anti-Hyphenation

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From: Craig Wylie
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1985 11:44

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In article <1092@enea.UUCP> sommar@enea.UUCP (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Then my main question:
>                  What about newspapers? Should they look like
>		  One
>		  word
>		  on 
>		  every line, when long words appear in the text.
>		  
>I will not suggest hyphenation should be done everywhere possible,
>but in some places you got to do it. And it shall always be done
>with care, no matter if you writing by hand or by computer.


It certainly seems that some newspapers in the  UK are going that way,
the Guardian, not known for its good typesetting :-), has definitely
had the occasional line with only one(mor usually two) words on it.

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From: craig@dcl-cs.UUCP (Craig Wylie)
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Subject: Re: Anti-Hyphenation
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 06:44:26 EST
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