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  2. Precomposed character - Wikipedia

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    In the following example, there is a common Swedish surname Åström written in the two alternative methods, the first one with a precomposed Å (U+00C5) and ö (U+00F6), and the second one using a decomposed base letter A (U+0041) with a combining ring above (U+030A) and an o (U+006F) with a combining diaeresis (U+0308).

  3. English orthography - Wikipedia

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    In the tables, the hyphen has two different meanings. A hyphen after the letter indicates that it must be at the beginning of a syllable, e.g., j - in jumper and ajar. A hyphen before the letter indicates that it cannot be at the beginning of a word, e.g., - ck in sick and ticket.

  4. Help:Line-break handling - Wikipedia

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    In many cases breaking up a word with a space would be inappropriate. Soft hyphens also creates word-break opportunities, but will add a hyphen rather than a space. In other words, a soft hyphen is a hyphen inserted into a word not otherwise hyphenated, to be displayed or typeset only if it falls at the end of a line of text.

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    In no case should the resulting font size of any text drop below 85% of the page's default font size. Note that the HTML <small>...</small> tag has a semantic meaning of fine print or side comments; [2] do not use it for stylistic changes. For use of small text for authority names with binomials, see § Scientific names.

  6. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 25

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    Bobblewik. As I said above, the hyphen is only a tool to resolve ambiguity. Otherwise it adds no value. If there is only one reasonable interpretation there is no benefit to a hyphen. See the quotes from styleguides on my page. Written words in text: Against. Bobblewik. Digits yes please, they are easy to read and translate. Words no thank you.

  7. Wikipedia : Simplified Manual of Style

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    A hyphen is not a dash. Hyphens are used within words or to join words, but not in punctuating the parts of a sentence. Use an en dash (–) with &nbsp; before and a space after; or use an em dash (—) without spaces. See Wikipedia:How to make dashes. Avoid using two hyphens (--) to make a dash; and avoid using a hyphen for a minus sign. read ...

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    In article text, do not use a capital letter after a hyphen except for terms that would ordinarily be capitalized in running prose, such as proper names (e.g. demonyms and brand names): Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean-style, but not Gandhi-Like. Letters used as designations are treated as names for this purpose: a size-A drill bit.

  9. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.