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It's a preference. If your manager dislikes hyphenation, dump it. I
don't think you'll find any definitive authority that says
"Hyphenation...bad" or "Hyphenation...good"
--- Paul Pehrson <paulpehrson -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
...
> told me that recently another writer told him that "good technical
> writing" doesn't use hyphens, and we should update our template
> documents to turn off auto hyphenation.
>
> Here's my question for all you seasoned professionals: what do you
> think about hyphenation in technical documentation? Do you think
> hyphenation is okay as long as you don't hyphenate jargon words?
> Should hyphenation be turned off for a whole project? Where do you
> draw the line (pun intended)?
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