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	Hyphen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hyphens are occasionally used to denote syllabification, as in syl-lab-i-fi-ca-tion.
		Soft hyphens are most useful when the width is known but future editability is desired, as few would have the patience to put them in at every place they believed a hyphenated split was acceptable (as would be needed for their meaningful use on a medium like the Web).
		Usage of hyphens, as opposed to the slashes used in the English language, is specified for international standards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hyphen (1921 words)

	Dashes and hyphens
		A hyphen is, especially linguistics, used are to indicate that a sequence of letters is a prefix or suffix or otherwise part of a word rather than a word of its own, as in “the plural suffix -en is very rare in English”.
		Hyphens might also be used to indicate possible hyphenation points or syllable structure of a word, though there are many other notations for this in dictionaries.
		In such usage, a hyphen would normally be used, but since a part of a compound phrase is itself hyphenated or consists of several words, some authors use an en dash instead, in the role of a hyphen with a “scope” different from normal.
	www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/dashes.html (3124 words)

	Character design standards - Punctuation 1
		In this implementation, the soft hyphen is a hidden hyphen and only displayed when a line break occurs at a soft hyphen position.
		Because of the inconsistent use and implementation of the soft hyphen, most recommendations for manual HTML authoring are currently discouraging the use of the soft hyphen.
		The non-breaking hyphen is the same as the hyphen character with the added functionality of providing a way to preventing a hyphenated word from being separated by a line break.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/developers/fdsspec/punc.aspx (3555 words)

	Soft hyphen (SHY) - a hard problem?
		Soft hyphen is not related to any word division process to be applied to the text but may indicate what has happened in such a process when the text was produced.
		The difference in usage is that the soft hyphen is for a particular use - in practise, at the end of a line.
		Thus, it is possible but not mandatory to indicate whether a hyphen at the end of a line belongs to the word itself (and is to be presented even if the word is not divided into lines at that point), by using normal hyphen in that case and soft hyphen otherwise.
	www.indwes.edu /Faculty/bcupp/Things/Characters/shy.html (2810 words)

	Support for soft hyphens \| clagnut/sandbox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HTML specifies that ‘soft’ hyphens can be used to indicate where are word could be divided in this manner, yet few modern browsers seem to support it.
		In all cases, where a line is broken at a soft hyphen, a hyphen character must be displayed at the end of the first line.
		If a line is not broken at a soft hyphen, the user agent must not display a hyphen character.
	www.clagnut.com /sandbox/softhyphen/ (137 words)

	<HYPH> HTML suggestion - Nada, KTH
		Hyphenation certainly is a more demanding task for HTML documents than ordinary paper documents, produced by word processing, because the dynamic nature of word wrapping in HTML documents makes necessary the inclusion of hyphenation hints virtually everywhere in a paragraph, not only at the end of a few lines.
		A more fundamental problem with soft hyphen is that it cannot represent hyphenation behaviour in some special cases in languages such as Swedish and German.
		The soft hyphen problems show that there is a need for a more backwards compatible and more general solution for indicating possible hyphenation points than using the specific character soft hyphen.
	www.nada.kth.se /i18n/html/hyph.html (791 words)

	Special Characters [Robin’s HTML 4.0 Conformance Test] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When a soft hyphen breaks a word between one line and the next, a hyphen character is displayed at the end of the first line.
		When a soft hyphen does not break a word between lines, the hyphen must not be displayed.
		Soft hyphens are vital for text that must be displayed on a tiny screen or in a narrow frame.
	www.robinlionheart.com /stds/html4/spchars (783 words)

	Barry MacDonnell's Toolbox for WordPerfect for Windows - Macros, Tips, and Templates
		Assign "Hyphenation Soft" to the keys, if it is not already assigned to them.
		Hard spaces, regular hyphens, soft hyphens, and hyphenation soft returns must be deliberately inserted by the user in WordPerfect, while hard hyphens can be either deliberately inserted or imported from an external source.
		Hard spaces, like hard hyphens, are useful in several circumstances, to "glue" words, numbers or dates together to prevent them from splitting to the next line by word wrap.
	wptoolbox.com /tips/Hyphens.html (620 words)

	Soft hyphen (SHY) - a hard problem?
		SOFT HYPHEN is imaged by a graphic symbol identical with that representing HYPHEN when an automatic line break has been established just after it, or if it is directly followed by an explicit line break (including end-of-string).
		A: No. The ISO 8859-1 standard defines the SOFT HYPHEN as "[a] graphic character that is imaged by a graphic symbol identical with, or similar to, that representing hyphen" (section 6.3.3), but does not specify details of how or when it is to be displayed, nor other details of its semantics.
		Thus, the FAQ entry admits that the meaning of the soft hyphen as defined in ISO 8859-1 is not the same as in the Unicode standard.
	www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/shy.html (4287 words)

	&shy
		_ Soft hyphen : that, I assert, is the bug that has crept in among the vacuum tubes, and it probably crept in long before the writing of HTML 2.
		Those browsers that interpret soft hyphens must observe the following semantics: If a line is broken at a soft hyphen, a hyphen character must be displayed at the end of the first line.
		About automatic hyphenation, be it done with dictionaries (too big) or by algorithms (too dicey), perhaps the less said the better.
	www.dam.brown.edu /people/fb/shy173.html (1204 words)

	UAX#14: Line Breaking Properties
		For the purpose of this document, it is assumed that hyphenation is equivalent to insertion of soft hyphen characters.
		Hyphenation is often used with space-based line breaking to provide additional line break opportunities—however, it requires knowledge of the language and potentially user interaction or overrides.
		When a hyphenated word is split at the hyphen this is indicated by a double hyphen which looks like a light version of the German Fraktur hyphen (short equals sign with a slight slope up to the right).
	www.unicode.org /reports/tr14/tr14-15.html (8972 words)

	Sorting It All Out : Every character has a story #23: U+00ad (SOFT HYPHEN)
		In other places, the soft hyphen is described as a "discretionary hyphen", which clearly suggests the formatting role as well.
		For WordStar it was 0x1E for 'inactive soft hyphen', which was an inserted line break opportunity for word-wrap, and 0x1F for 'active soft hyphen', which was an actually broken word for word-wrap, displayed (and printed) visibly.
		When a SOFT HYPHEN is used to represent a possible hyphenation point, the character representation is that of the text sequence without hyphenation (for example: "tug<00AD>gumi").
	blogs.msdn.com /michkap/archive/2006/09/02/736881.aspx (3597 words)

	Rules For Using Hyphens And Dashes
		It is used to hyphenate compounds of compounds, where at least one pair is already hyphenated (as in "Netscape 6.1 is an Open-Source–based browser.").
		"soft hyphen", "discretionary hyphen" or "optional hyphen") is to be used for one purpose only--to indicate where a word may be broken at the end of a line.
		In most cases, two hyphens are shown as such, and may be split at a line end (in the editing box or in the rendered page).
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?RulesForUsingHyphensAndDashes (4514 words)

	PDF Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 13 September 2001
		Use a soft hyphen, identified by a character that maps to the Unicode value U+00AD or 173 decimal, when a line-break hyphen is introduced into the middle of a word.
		A hyphen that is always set; for example, the hyphen in "cost-effective." A soft hyphen, by contrast, will only be set when a word that is not normally hyphenated falls at the end of a line, and must be broken for proper type spacing.
		Hyphens inserted automatically by a hyphenation utility are called discretionary or soft hyphens.
	www.w3.org /WAI/GL/WCAG-PDF-TECHS-20010913/Overview (5934 words)

	Hyphens a soft problem \| clagnut/blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mozilla hides all soft hyphens – an acceptable degradation but still wrong, however Safari displays all soft hyphens, rendering text virtually unreadable.
		For example, “record” is hyphenated differently depending on whether it’s a noun (rec-ord) or a verb (re-cord).
		The word “hyphenation” itself is somewhat exceptional; if “hy-phen-a-tion” is compared to similar words like “con-cat-e-na-tion”, it’s not immediately clear why the “n” should be attached to the “e” in one case but not the other.
	www.clagnut.com /blog/329 (1672 words)

	Re: Soft hyphen (Re: Cougar comments) (fwd)
		A "soft" hyphen is a visible > character that is inserted by a text formatter after a line break > within a word has been established.
		In other words, when a text > formatter determines that a word will be broken and the second part > will begin a new line, the formatter inserts a soft hyphen after the > first part of the word rather than a "hard" hyphen.
		If the text is > later reformatted, the soft hyphen may be easily removed when it no > longer falls on a line break, whereas the "hard" hyphen is left in the > text regardless of its position.
	lists.w3.org /Archives/Public/www-html/msg01489.html (449 words)

	Re: Soft hyphen (Re: Cougar comments)
		The discussion is about whether the ISO character SOFT HYPHEN is to be interpreted as: a) a hyphenation point, not displayed in the middle of the line, but displayed as a hyphen when the line is broken there.
		By the way, the Unicode book is even clearer on this, as it mentions "discretionary hyphen" in the comments for SOFT HYPHEN.
		The specification says that graphic > symbol used to image soft hyphen is identical with or similar to hyphen.
	lists.w3.org /Archives/Public/www-html/msg01479.html (678 words)

	The Corel WordPerfect User Group of the UK
		A soft hyphen will insert a hyphen if the word falls at the end of a line, but will lie dormant if the word is away from either end of the line.
		Again, without being too obsessive about this, I tend to put soft hyphens in for all very long words in case they are pushed to the end of the line by later additions.
		A hyphen should not be used to indicate a sudden break or change in continuity in a sentence or to insert a parenthetical thought.
	website.lineone.net /~wordperfectionersuk/Features/mending.htm (1771 words)

	Extended ASCII for HTML, introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When two hyphens make a dash, there is a small chance that a browser will break to a new line right between them, but apart from that unfortunate possibility, two hyphens make a more dash-like looking dash than one hyphen alone.
		The soft hyphen is a peculiar character that appears only when it is the last character before a line break.
		Another peculiarity of the soft hyphen in current MSIE is that a soft hyphen is never visible in the displayed page if it is the next to last character in a word or string before white space.
	www.dakota.net /~garth/font/intro.htm (4235 words)

	Five Simple Steps to Typesetting on the web: Dashes : Journal : Mark Boulton
		The Hyphen, or the 'hyphen-minus', is what you get when you press the key next to zero (standard qwerty keyboard, well mine anyway, for all those pedants out there).
		The soft hyphen indicates where a word has been split at the end of a line.
		Soft hyphens could be useful if you’re writing long words in narrow places, but sadly browser support isn’t quite there yet.
	www.markboulton.co.uk /journal/comments/five_simple_steps_to_typesetting_on_the_web_dashes (2967 words)

	Soft Hyphens in HTML \| Unfortunately Paul
		Web browsers won’t hyphenate your words for you, preferring instead to wrap the entire word on to the next line if there isn’t enough space for it.
		The soft hyphen character — andshy; or and#173; — exists to inform the browser where a hyphen may be placed, as demonstrated in this test case: Soft Hyphens.
		The emboldened words contain soft hyphens that should appear when you narrow your browser window.
	unfortunatelypaul.com /2005/05/25/soft-hyphens-in-html (317 words)

	Unicodes and Entities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A non-breaking space can be used in an empty cell of a table to prevent that cell from being closed for being empty.
		A soft-hyphen is not visible, unless word wraping causes the soft-hyphen to be displayed as a hyphen.
		This is a comparison of the hyphen or dash, and soft-hyphen
	mywebpage.netscape.com /SkipGeel/unicodes.html (200 words)

	ANSDIT - The letter "H"
		A hyphen required by the spelling of a word or an expression regardless of its position in a line.
		Hard hyphens are not subject to hyphen drop.
		The function that ensures that a soft hyphen does not appear in the presentation of a word when it is not necessary to divide the word.
	www.ncits.org /tc_home/k5htm/h.htm (3104 words)

	Discretionary Hyphens - ITCFonts.com
		A discretionary hyphen is manually inserted where you, the user, want a word to break if and when that word appears at the end of a line.
		Use a discretionary hyphen (sometimes called a ‘soft’ hyphen) rather than a ‘hard’ hyphen whenever you want to overrule or tweak the automatic hyphenation generated by your application.
		The discretionary hyphen also has a lesser-known but very useful feature: if you place it in front of a word (or a string of characters acting as a word, such as an email address), that word will never be hyphenated (and the hyphen, of course, remains invisible).
	www.itcfonts.com /Ulc/4011/DiscHyphens.htm (289 words)

	Hyphenating words « WordPress Support
		You have to put a hyphen and then a space or else the words don't split.
		This "soft hyphen" could be put into very long words.
		The biggest problem is that you can put in a hyphen, but someone with a different resolution will see the hyphenated word in the middle of a sentence...
	wordpress.org /support/topic/4099 (376 words)

	The Old Joel on Software Forum - Single Line Up Arrow
		In every text font, it's the soft hyphen, indicating a user recommendation for hyphenation.
		Word processors shouldn't show soft hyphens unless an option "Show control characters" or the like is checked (which WordPad does not have IIRC).
		I really have no idea why the Symbol font isn't copied correctly across the clipboard -- it's true, I could reproduce it on my Windows XP Pro system as well -- the soft hyphen thing is just the only possible explanation I could come up with.
	discuss.fogcreek.com /joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=99603 (499 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Similarly, upper- and lower- case Zcarons are not mapped to anything in Corel's PS output, with the same basic problem.
		Finally, the soft hyphen (173) character is mapped to an n-dash in Corel's PS output, but the soft hyphen width is still used, resulting in an n-dash that partially overprints the next character when printed to a PS device.
		So some of us set the regular hyphen (45) to break and use the soft hyphen (173) as a nonbreaking hyphen -- or you could reverse that if you wanted.
	www.draw.nu /venturafaq/showarticle.asp?A=7 (201 words)

	[No title]
		Soft returns change depending on the carriage width used to display or print the document.
		To show the hyphens used to show stammering in inkprint, use the unbreakable hyphen (entered with Control-U).
		An unbreakable hyphen (dash) is a hyphen that cannot be used to divide a line.
	www.duxburysystems.com /mega/html/REFMAN6.HTM (8785 words)

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