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Article #708Re: Re: For those of you who don't read net.internat
From: Suzanne Barnett
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1985 16:07
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1985 16:07
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> > Hyphenation. I have heard rumors of experimental data showing
> > that hyphenation makes text harder to read (by some measure).
> > If you know a publication to that effect, please send me a pointer.
> > Personally, I just don't like hyphenation.
> > --
> > Gary Perlman Wang Institute Tyngsboro, MA 01879 (617) 649-9731
> ___________
>
> Hyphenation -- as the stylebook of the Oxford University Press says,
> "If you take the hyphen seriously you will surely go mad." (I'm sure
> everyone has seen that quote.) My rule is to to use a hyphen if leaving it
> out would confuse the reader or offend his sensibilities.
>
> Mike Jessie Integrated Solutions Boulder, CO 80301 (303) 444-5710
> {allegra|hoo|ucbvax|amd}!nbires!fred!mike
The subject under discussion is when a word is broken between
two lines, and thus hyphenated (as compared with moving the
entire word down to the next line), not a word that is always
hyphenated, even when it falls on the same line.
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