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Merops
hyphen
hyphenation and dashes
Merops hyphen automatically standardizes to publisher guidelines on hyphenation
and en rules.
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A
pair of Yellow-crowned King-Parrots
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Standard
prefixes
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Merops
hyphen includes hyphenation alternatives dealing with
standard prefixes (non-, pre-, post-, etc.).
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exceptions
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Merops
hyphen includes comprehensive listings of exceptions,
including:
• ‘double-letter’ rules (e.g. non-negotiable)
•
proper noun prefixes (e.g. pre-Roman)
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False hyphens
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Merops
hyphen identifies or automatically deletes false hyphens,
which are commonly found in files derived from paginated content such as
extracted from PDFs.
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Compound
adjectives
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Rules
for the correct use of hyphens in compound adjectives are also available
(e.g. ‘a short-term view’, but ‘in the long term’; it took 7 years – it was
a 7-year itch).
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Context-driven
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Used
in conjunction with Merops para,
Merops hyphen’s corrections can be suppressed
in parts of the document that should remain unaffected. For example: the
contents of reference titles should remain as the author keyed them.
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