September 29, 2005: Issue 107
Some rules to keep in mind about hyphenation in body copy:
• Don’t end a line on a hyphen in rag-right or centered text, unless the word that’s breaking is a hyphenated compound that breaks at the grammatical hyphen.
• Don’t let two lines in a row end in hyphens.
• Don’t break words within a hyphenated compound.
• Don’t let a word break at the end of a column.
• When a word breaks, make sure at least three letters appear on the second line. When possible, keep a prefix or suffix from breaking from the rest of the word.
• Don’t hyphenate proper nouns.
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