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From: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Hyphenation
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 00:45:16 EST
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In article <3353@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>There is NO *real* reason to hyphenate words to split them across lines;

>(If you hadn't guessed by now, I am against hyphenation, and never do it
>myself. :-)

That's what I learnt at school - English text is seldom (or never)
hyphenated, and the natural reason is that the medium length of the
words is rather small. The situation in other languages might be
different, as it is in Swedish, where short words are concatenated
into long ones and supplied with numerous endings. As Sommarskog
(that's ten letters, quite a normal length of a name in my opinion!)
points out, newspapers would look terrible without hyphenation
(that is, worse than they do today). Do we need to discuss Finnish..?

Conclusion: Even if *you* don't need hyphenation, you'll get it for free,
because *we* need it!
-- 
Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 183170
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