It’s less confusing to always use an escaped hyphen, so that it doesn't have to be positionally dependent. That’s a\-inside the bracketed character class. But there’s something else to consider. Some of those enumerated characters should possibly be written differently. In some circumstances...
I got a comment on a figure I submitted for publication, and by testing just realized something I was not aware of before: When using the bitmap-drivers, R seems to use a hyphen instead of a proper minus symbol for negative values on the axes. Is there any way to correct that?...
Last, don’t forget that two-word numbers use a hyphen, even ordinal numbers. This includes all numbers above twenty, except for multiples of ten. The hyphen in two-word numbers comes in addition to the hyphen in compound adjectives with numbers, so it’s common to have number words with...
“…learning mentalization, storytelling, statistics, product characteristics and verbal- & social skills to prospect, create and reinforce demand for a valuable but complex product.” Also, can one use the hyphen in combination with an ampersand instead of with “and” as above? GrammarBook.com ...
There is only one reason to use punctuation correctly - but it is a vitally important reason: to make oneself understood with clarity. In speech, we have a variety of devices for clarifying our meaning: stress, intonation, rhythm, pauses, hand or body movements. In text, we have only the...
Understand that some words do not require a hyphen to separate the prefix from the word, such as restate, pretest, and undo. Let a dictionary be your guide for when to use the hyphen after a prefix. When you use a hyphen, the two words have to rely on each other. Example: re-...
An ellipsis is a trio of periods (…) that serve as a placeholder for text. Let's look at how to use ellipses in grammar correctly.
need string part after second hyphen? Need table count, index count, views count, procedures count for all databases Need to Capitalize the First Letter ONLY, and leave the rest lower case. Help please. Need to combine month and year to get date YYYY-MM-DD format Need to convert a NVARCH...
Hyphen use While we said above that the em dash, also called the “common dash,” is the most common of the true dashes, hyphens show up more frequently in text. They have a variety of uses. Hyphens are used to link elements in compound words. a baker-owner In some words, a hyp...
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