: Re: End-of-line hyphenation - how should it be used? End-of-line hyphenation is the process of breaking words between lines to create more consistency across a text block. (source) A long word is

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If you're typing in modern era, most word processors don't require hypentaion at the end of the line as they tend to move a whole word to the new line if it's going to overrun. This was more common in typewriters and newspapers because the former was not dynamic and the latter has space constraints. Even then, in the case with limiting the space smaller than the default, the text will still be refitted to avoid this in word processors. And if you're writing on a typewriter, why do you hate yourself?

English does use hyphenated words and compound words (improving on it's Germanic roots, which has mad love for compund words... the more words compounded the better). In both cases, they are considered a single word. Words such as the spelt version of numbers greater than 20 and less than 100 will be hyphenated words (21 is properly spelt twenty-one) and is considered one word for the purposes of new lines in a word possessor as is Firetruck. If you must hyphenate at the end of the line, you should break hyphenated words on the hyphen point and compund words between the two componant words (Thus "Twenty- /n* one" and "Fire- /n* truck"). But again, computers have rendered this mostly dead.

/n is basically a representative of the character for line break in coding (or how a word processor's code handles the event of an Enter Key press).

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