The term subsequence is sometimes used with and sometime without a hyphen. Please determine which is correct and make sure they are consistent.
David,
For
the most part, I have just taken the text as it has been provided, though
occasionally I have (or more correctly, Framemaker has)
inserted hyphens when the spelling checker didn't like a particular word. I agree with Brad that in many cases the
hyphen is not needed, and that Frame's default dictionary is overly
pessimistic. Though in
doing this e-mail, Microsoft's dictionary did not like "subexpression", "superclass"
or "interprocess".
Do
you want to add a correction item for me to do a global search for Brad's list
of words and remove the hyphens? When I
make the changes, should a trivial change of removing the hyphen be flagged
with strike-through text?
Stu
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Stuart
Sutherland
stuart@sutherland-hdl.com
503-692-0898
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Brad Pierce [mailto:Brad.Pierce@synopsys.com]
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Sent:
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To: stuart@sutherland-hdl.com
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Subject: Extra hyphens for sub- prefix?
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Hi, Stu,
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According to the style manuals,
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> http://www.jhsph.edu/Press_Room/style_manual/h.html
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compound words with the following prefixes don't need
a hyphen --
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> ante, anti, bi,
bio, co, counter, extra, infra, inter, intra,
> macro, meta, micro,
mid, mini, multi, neo, non, over, post,
> pre, pro,
proto, pseudo, re, semi, socio, sub, super, supra,
> trans, ultra,
un, under
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The donations to 3.1A have been adding in a lot of these hyphens. In
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my opinion, the final document would look better if
some of these
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hyphens were removed, especially after 'sub', and in 'interprocess'
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and 'superclass'.
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The words that look weirdest to me with hyphens are
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> interprocess
> subdivided
> subexpression
> subsection
> subsequence
> substring
> superclass
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Multi-dimensional and multi-clock don't look too bad to me. Neither
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do most of those starting 'non-', 'pre', 'post-'.
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-- Brad
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