Re: breaking hyphen?

JRS: In article <1130315748.654045.14080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dated Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:35:48, seen in news:comp.infosystems.www.autho
ring.html, Alan Wood <alan.wood@xxxxxxxxxx> posted :
>
>One possible improvement would be to add a condition that a break
>should not be allowed if it would leave a string of 3 or fewer
>characters at tne end or start of a line.

ISTR that 3 should be acceptable; breaking "hot-dog" seems OK,
especially if there are not many characters per line.

> Another possible improvement
>would be not to allow a break between a hyphen and a number, so that
>negative numbers are not broken.

Latter is not so good if the text happens to contain Part
#Q235-987-577-875-755-G

Maybe allow break before hyphen-minus if it has digits on both sides?

I presume hyphen-minus is \u002D, hyphen and minus are above \u007F,
hyphen always allows break and minus never does.

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