> I can't think of a context where a true hyphen between numbers could
> be accetably broken.
>
> I'm excluding cases where a number-range is implied, as in
>
> Items 2-7
>
> since this should properly be represented by an en-dash (with or
> without padding), as in
>
> 2\(en7 2\^\(en\^7 1\(en\^8
BTW, in German, AFAIK, you should use `-', not \[en]. Note that \[en]
behaves exactly as `-' w.r.t. hyphenation.
> Items item2-1 item2-2 item2-3 item 3-1 item3-5 ...
>
> and again I can't imagine that a break at a hyphen would be
> acceptable. Wouldnt it look just awful:
>
> ............. item3-
> -1
No, it would be
............. item3-
1
> If anyone can think of a context where a hyphen break between two
> numbers is OK, I'd be very interested to hear of it!
For very long numbers it probably gives the only sensible breakpoint;
it is also useful for autogenerated input.
Werner
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