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Words With A Hard Hyphen Generate As Separate |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: When generating an index from a concordance file, a word containing a hard hyphen (Home-Hyphen) is not recognized as a single word. A 360-page document lists several hundred US Government documents. Most of these documents have titles containing at least one hard hyphen. The index listed both parts of the title separately. Theoretically, if there is a hard hyphen in a word, shouldn't WordPerfect recognize that word as an entity unto itself? Solutions: WordPerfect treats the hard hyphen (Home-Hyphen) as a word separator. For instance, if a document were to contain the word "abc-def", when the program scans through the document, it interprets "abc-" as "abc" and "-def" as "def". That is why they are included separately as a match for the generated index. This has been logged as an enhancement to WP 5.1. For now, the user is able to work around the problem by using a valid character in Character Set 1 instead of a hyphen. They can then use a Search and Replace later and replace the character with a hyphen. They could also use the Ctrl-Hyphen. |
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