Hyphens introduced at line breaks

[kadioguy]

[FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]In the [/FONT]SOED6's abbreviations and symbols, it says:
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[/FONT][FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]The printing of hyphens [/FONT]
[FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Hyphens introduced at line breaks in words or formulae not otherwise hyphenated are printed "~". The regular form "-" represents a hyphen which would occur in any circumstance in the text.

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[/FONT]'Hyphens introduced at line breaks in words or formulae not otherwise hyphenated are printed "~"'

[FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]What doe it mean?



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[Rover_KE]

I have never seen the swung dash used like that and advise students not to use it.

 

[SoothingDave]

Thanks for introducing the term "swung dash." I never heard it before.

 

[GoesStation]

The extract probably comes from a technical text in which it's important for the reader to know whether a word or formula that wraps to a following line is supposed to contain a hyphen.

The image doesn't show a swung dash (which I've always called a tilde). It shows an angled hyphen.

 

[bubbha]

I've never in my life seen any-
thing other than a hyphen be-
ing used for a line-break.

I advise only using a hy-
phen for a line-break.

 

[kadioguy]

I have got some examples.

 

[emsr2d2]

I've never noticed such a dash before. If I stumbled across one, I'm not sure I would even notice that it's at a slightly different angle from a standard hyphen. I might even think it was a slight printing error.

 

[kadioguy]

I might even thing it was a slight printing error.

Does 'thing' here function as a verb?

 

[emsr2d2]

Does 'thing' here function as a verb?

Nope! It was a typo. I meant "think". I have corrected it. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

[bubbha]

I've never noticed such a dash before. If I stumbled across one, I'm not sure I would even notice that it's at a slightly different angle from a standard hyphen. I might even think it was a slight printing error.

I would consider it a peculiarity of the font.

 

[Rover_KE]

I can't remember the last time I split a word at the end of a line. When I'm typing text, the machine decides when to start a new line, and when I'm handwriting a letter I start a new line if I don't think I can get all of the next word on the current one.