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Insert Hyphen

Choose the desired type of hyphen here. The offered hyphens are basically used as described hereafter:

Long Dash

This is a long hyphen (Em-dash) which should basically be used only to visualize a filled in thought in a text.
Example:
iCalamus is a fantastic DTP app—besides that you can use it for other purposes too—and offers many options.

Short Dash

This hyphen has En-width and will be used basically as a 'Minus', and as a 'from–to' hyphen, etc.

Soft Hyphen

If you want a word to be hyphened by iCalamus without creating and showing a hyphen, use this soft hyphen. Use it to hyphen phrases with special characters (e.g. the & sign like in 'black&white') without entering an additional hyphen which would mix up the phrase. The control character itself will never be shown, it is only recognized by the text formatting.
[This function doesn't work properly in Mac OS X 10.4.]

Nonbreaking Hyphen

This hyphen looks like a basic hyphen, but it will never be recognized in text flow. That means if you want phrases like 'T-Online' to be protected against hyphenation, use the nonbreaking hyphen.

Hint: In general, you must not type in hyphens yourself in your text for hyphenation purposes. Entering [–][Return] to force a hyphenation at a distinct text position may be extremely dangerous, and may result in damaged text. If you change the text afterwards, you would then have to manually find all hyphe- nations which you have ad- ded your- self before. (Or else it looks as shown right here.)