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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly when it comes to the "classics", many editors will choose to use "modern" punctuation rather than that which was prevelent at the time the book was written.
Eg, until the early 20th century, "today", and "tomorrow" were normally written "to-day" and "to-morrow". Some editors of, say, Dickens, will keep the original spelling (with the hyphens), others will remove the hyphens to conform to modern usage.
Is that what you were asking?
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Yes, somewhat, thanks.
So this kind of thing is acceptable in certain cases?
The case you mention is rather more clear cut than what I was thinking of. In a book I'm proofing I've come across a double hyphenated word and because it appears to be in the original text, I chose to leave it as it was even though I thought it was stylistically horrible. The book isn't even that old either.