Insert Hyphen
Choose the desired type of hyphen here. The offered hyphens are
basically used as described hereafter:
- Long Dash
-
This is a long hyphen (Em-dash) which should basically be used
only to visualize a filled in thought in a text.
Example:
iCalamus is a fantastic DTP app—besides that you can use it
for other purposes too—and offers many options.
- Short Dash
-
This hyphen has En-width and will be used basically as a
'Minus', and as a 'from–to' hyphen, etc.
- Soft Hyphen
-
If you want a word to be hyphened by iCalamus without creating
and showing a hyphen, use this soft hyphen. Use it to hyphen phrases
with special characters (e.g. the & sign like in 'black&white')
without entering an additional hyphen which would mix up the phrase.
The control character itself will never be shown, it is only
recognized by the text formatting.
- Nonbreaking Hyphen
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This hyphen looks like a basic hyphen, but it will never be
recognized in text flow. That means if you want phrases like
'T-Online' to be protected against hyphenation, use the nonbreaking
hyphen.
Hint: In general, you must not type
in hyphens yourself in your text for hyphenation purposes. Entering
[–][Return] to force a hyphenation at a distinct text position
may be extremely dangerous, and may result in damaged text. If you
change the text afterwards, you would then have to manually find all
hyphe- nations which you have ad- ded your- self before. (Or else it
looks as shown right here.)
