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cybmole · 02-02-2012, 07:23 AM

i am currently reading a retail mobi ( Phil Rickman - The Lamp of the Wicked) which contains a strange mixture of styles

IT has the usual syllable-rest of word construction for hyphenated words,e.g. "half-lit"
but also has many instances of syllable -Hyphen-space-rest of word constructs like "half- lit".

I can't decide if this is due to sloppy formatting or if it is done deliberately to improve e-reader justification ( as Kindle will not break lines just for a simple hyphen ).

the book also has (correct) usage of clause - clause constructs wih spaces both sides of the hyphen.

I canoot find any style guides which would explain / justify use of a hyphen+trailing space construct for a simple hyphenated word?

02-02-2012, 07:23 AM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	hyphen + trailing space in retail mobi text i am currently reading a retail mobi ( Phil Rickman - The Lamp of the Wicked) which contains a strange mixture of styles IT has the usual syllable-rest of word construction for hyphenated words,e.g. "half-lit" but also has many instances of syllable -Hyphen-space-rest of word constructs like "half- lit". I can't decide if this is due to sloppy formatting or if it is done deliberately to improve e-reader justification ( as Kindle will not break lines just for a simple hyphen ). the book also has (correct) usage of clause - clause constructs wih spaces both sides of the hyphen. I canoot find any style guides which would explain / justify use of a hyphen+trailing space construct for a simple hyphenated word?