RE: Hyphenation in technical documentation

Subject: RE: Hyphenation in technical documentation
From: <neilson -at- alltel -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:37:47 -0600


Here's one more reason to avoid (or use) hyphenation.

If the document is later automatically harvested into
some other publication, and hyphenated text is trans-
ferred by cut-and-paste with no (or little) human inter-
vention, you will often see results such as appear in
the following paragraph.

If the document is later automatically harvested
into some other publication, and hyphenated text
is trans- ferred by cut-and-paste with no (or
little) human inter- vention, you will ...

Text that looks like that shows how much the harvester
cared about the material that was quoted, borrowed, or
stolen. Whether to use hyphenation thus depends on
whether you want to aid or hinder harvesting of your
text.


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