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Words are sometimes joined together with a hyphen to make a compound word (Attorney-General), or have a prefix attached with a hyphen (ex-President), or include a hyphen to ensure correct pronunciation (de-ice). Programs for word processing generally adjust spacing to avoid line-end hyphenation; however, it is still widely used in newspapers where columns of text are quite narrow.

The various uses of hyphenation are detailed in Section 7.7.