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Subject:Re: html character set From:Diane Burke <dburke -at- RIGEL -dot- TYDAC -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 6 Jun 1997 13:06:18 +0000
Hi Cathy,
I certainly am not in "the know", but I remember that WordPerfect used to
have a character called a "soft hyphen". What it did was insert a hyphen in
the designated spot if needed due to the word falling at the end of a line,
for example, and removed the hyphen if it was not needed,
i.e., the word fell in the middle of a line.
Diane
In <m0wa1FK-000RKBC -at- tydac -dot- com>, Cathy Carr wrote:
>To: techwr-l @ listserv.okstate.edu
>cc:
>Subject: html character set
>
>
>Does anyone know what a "soft hyphen" is, the character represented in html
>by "­"? Dadgum if I can figure it out.
>Thanks.
>
>Cathy Carr
>Documentation Specialist
>Ovid Technologies, Inc.
>1/212/563-3006 or 1/800/950-2035 (ext. 323)
>http://www.ovid.com
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