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Re: Hyphenation best practices

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Jan 5, 2010 12:21PM

But what is a hyphon? Where is it on the keyboard? I was under the
impression that a - was to be used.

cheers

Geof

At 01:33 PM 1/5/2010, you wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Geof Collis wrote:
> > not only because of what he's stated but also because JAWS speaks it
> > as em- not - so it would come out like blue em- collar instead
> of blue-collar
>
>But the use of an em dash, or any dash for that matter, in
>"blue-collar" would be very incorrect. The appropriate character is a
>hyphen.
>
>Jared
>