Example sentences for: hyphenation

How can you use “hyphenation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • [In the early 1960s I designed a hyphenation program (for automatic typesetting) based on a logic of prefix-root-suffix combined with a table look-up (for anomalies: for instance, before analysis of a word ending in -ing , the word would be checked against a list including thing, bring, string , and other words that could not be hyphenated).

  • I have been entertained by the discussions of computerized hyphenation [ XVI, 4; XVII, 3].

  • No hyphenation algorithm has been invented to control rivers of white space, nor to distinguish between pro-ject (verb) and proj-ect (noun, unless one is Canadian).

  • I devised what I thought was a useful system for showing syllabification of boldface words in the Collins English Dictionary: places where hyphens could occur were marked by a tiny plus sign (except for spelling hyphens, which always permitted end-of-line hyphens); places that marked syllable breaks but where hyphenation was avoided, were marked by a centered dot:

  • The centered dots mark hyphenation points; the standard calls for a dot between the n and the a, not the o and the n.


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