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Re: Re: For those of you who don't read net.internat

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From: Suzanne Barnett
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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Subject: Re: Re: For those of you who don't read net.internat
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 11:07:16 EST
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