Herbert Voss writes: > Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: [...] > > This kerns better it seems, but it is an en-dash, not a hyphen. In > > the humanities and social sciences, at least, hyphens are used for > > compound word (with a few exceptions). :-( > > The en dash (–) is used to indicate a range of just about > anything with numbers, including dates, numbers, game scores, and > pages in any sort of document.
True, and I have plenty of those as well, but that does not apply to hyphenations like "non-Western". It's not a range, from "non" to Western (though I like the idea). > The Chicago Manual of style also states that it should be used “Where > one of the components of a compound adjective contains more than one > word,” instead of a hyphen Yes, that's true (page 260 or so); that would be great if I needed to write "pre--World War I widgets" or "non--East European art" etc. :-( -K -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tiros-Translations
