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Re: VMs: Medeltidshandskrift 47



--- Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Medeltidshandskrift. This is similar to a problem in
> preparing  comparison documents, whether to
> separate or combine hyphenated words. 
> It seems the tendency before the strong use of
> hyphens was to separate the words but now we
> tend to combine them.

I think it is quite language-dependent. German likes
to stick words together while English does not.
Hyphens tend to be over-used. I suspect that I am
often guilty of that myself, like in this short
paragraph.

Cheers, Rene


	
		
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