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Subject:Re: Hyphenation in technical documentation From:TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:37:52 -0500
Wow, that's just.... wow!
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:46:06 -0500, T.W. Smith <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Apparently, 50% of my "reviewers" had run the PDF I sent through a
> spell check and the spell check caught the hyphens used at line
> breaks, so they flagged all of those as spelling errors and reported
> me to my boss who was unhappy with me as a result. (The instructions
> for the reviewers included no such directions.)
>
> So, if you have such a corporate structure, avoid using hyphens to
> break words across lines.
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