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Old 12-22-2014, 03:56 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
Now the question becomes ... why would someone use a minus sign instead of a dash?
In addition to the text-to-speech issue mentioned in the article, could the minus sign also screw up actual hyphenation in some reflows? I could see how having multiple hyphens in words, or weird line breaks would be a problem, especially if he didn't just use a lot of hyphenated terms, but took it upon himself to hyphenate at the end of lines, but I don't know if that is actually the case or not.
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