<?thyebef>
Description
Specifies the minimum number of characters that must appear before a hyphen when hyphenating a word that appears in the assigned exception dictionary: this prevent words from being broken too close to their beginning. For example, entering thyebef 3 means that the word 'hyphenated' could not be broken as 'hy-phenated'.
Syntax
<?thyebef chars:n>
<?thyebef>
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[no parameter]
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Invoke the Hyphenation - min chars before exception hyphen dialog box.
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chars
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The minimum number of characters
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Additional Information
The existing <?thybef> property also controls the minimum characters that should appear before a hyphen when a word is hyphenated algorithmically. However, it purposely does not apply to words that appear in the assigned exception dictionary, so that the exception dictionary can be used to override <?thybef> in special cases.
It may be preferable to use an entire dictionary to specify all the hyphenation points: in this case the built-in hyphenation algorithm is effectively disabled. <thyebef> was implemented to deal with this scenario as well.
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