Hyphens

In terms of character encoding and display, that entity is represented by any of several characters and glyphs (including hard hyphens, soft or optional hyphens, and nonbreaking hyphens), depending on the context of use (discussed below).

While he has worked with a number of dogs over the years, his current dog is Emmylou, a specialist search dog, who he said "was fussy about the spelling of her name - no hyphens allowed".

As he transitions into the career of one whose credits come with multiple hyphens, Burns still vividly recognizes the appeal — and challenges — of working on a project solely as screenwriter.

If its to long, spelled in an amusing method, has hyphens between words, uses amounts instead of letters, might make it harder for people to keep in mind.

If you replace the usual commas with hyphens, will attempt to subtract one field from another – probably not what you intended.

In the 2011 print AP Stylebook that Slate assistant managing editor and copy chief Abby McIntyre keeps on her desk, the ambiguity and personal judgment inherent to using hyphens is similarly emphasized.

On the one hand, pages proudly display memorandums in which the staff debate hyphens and the best ways to split words across the end of lines.

The computer marked it as a naughty word and substituted three hyphens.

A 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts (prefix element, registration group, registrant, publication and check digit), and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces.

A bactrian camel that illustrates the idiom, for its humpy appearance camelCase (also camel caps or medial capitals) is the practice of writing compound words or phrases such that each word or abbreviation begins with a capital letter (and omits hyphens).

Hyphens ( -action- ) and double colons ( ::action:: ) as well as the operator /me are also used for similar purposes.

Hyphens are not used in Klingon.) An important aspect of Klingon grammar is its "ungrammaticality".

Hyphens indicate different developments at the beginning and in the interior of words; no consonants ever occurred at the ends of word roots.

In the new edition the second sentence read, "You should not take hyphens seriously".

It exists in French too but is written aide de camp (without any hyphens). ; cinquefoil : five-petal, five-leaf flower of the genus Potentilla, family Rosaceae; also a circular 5-lobed ornamental design.

Less common adverbs, including all those that end -ly, are less likely to need hyphens". citation In the 19th century, it was common to hyphenate adverb–adjective modifiers with the adverb ending in -ly (as in "a craftily-constructed chair").

Nonbreaking hyphens The word segmentation rules of most text systems consider a hyphen to be a word boundary and a valid point at which to break a line when flowing text.

Other compounds Connecting hyphens are used in a large number of miscellaneous compounds, other than modifiers, such as in lily-of-the-valley, cock-a-hoop, clever-clever, tittle-tattle and orang-utan.

Punctuation Wade–Giles uses hyphens to separate all syllables within a word (whereas pinyin separates syllables only in ambiguous cases, using apostrophes, as in Xi'an).

Rule names consist of a letter followed by letters, numbers, and hyphens.