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soft hyphen
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soft hyphen
A hyphen that prints if it winds up at the end of the line, but does not print otherwise. Contrast with hard hyphen. See discretionary hyphen.


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I have anticipated the first objection by suggesting above that soft hyphens are a product of the justification, not of the text.
 
 
 
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