WORD-DIVISION RULES
WORD-DIVISION RULES
Word division is used to maintain a relatively even right margin. However, any division that would cause the reader to have difficulty in comprehending or pronouncing a word should be avoided.
Because electronic dictionaries and word-processing programs may not always agree with authority for word-division—generally the current edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary—it is important to review and adjust word-division decisions. This will be easier to accomplish by using manual rather than automatic hyphenation.
Do Not Divide
1. One-syllable words: drilled, through, strength.
2. Amounts of money written in figures: $1,756.09
3. Abbreviations: UCLA
4. Contractions: wouldn't, couldn't, don't
5. A person's name.
6. Words with fewer than 6 letters (no matter how many syllables): pony, today, going.
7. The last word in a page.
8. The last word on any more than two consecutive lines.
9. The one-letter syllable at the beginning of a word: (a-round)
In order to discourage incorrect word division, some dictionaries no longer mark one-letter syllables at the beginning or the end of a word.
10. Do not separate word groups that need to be read together, such as page and number; month and year; title and surname, etc. Use a nonbreaking space when keying these groups.
Mrs. Dominguez; 465 miles; 10:30 a.m.; Chapter 15; Adam Hagerty, Jr.
Divide
a. Between syllables only: pen-cil, sen-tence, sec-tion. (A dictionary may be necessary for determining syllabication.)
b. Only at the already-existing hyphens in a hyphenated word: mother-in-law, self-sufficient.
c. After the basic word in words ending in "ing": fall-ing, sit-ting
d. After a one-letter syllable: sepa-rate, capi-tal
e. Between two one-letter syllables: gradu-ation, humili-ation
f. Dates at the comma: July 4, 1992
g. At the point of compound in compound words: Micro-soft
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