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Re: Hyphenation best practices

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From: Patrick Burke
Date: Jan 5, 2010 11:27AM

At 10:03 AM 1/5/2010, Jared Smith wrote:
>This isn't to mention that the minus sign should be treated
>differently as well.

It would be nice if our keyboards had different
keys for hyphen, dash & minus, too. Or if the
print symbols weren't so similar. But, that not
being the case,the lack of clarity will be with us pretty much forever.

Not to mention the beta/ß (sz) and
theta/empty-set confusions, but those are for more specific audiences. :)


Patrick
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