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<?thyeaft>
Description
Specifies the minimum number of characters that must appear after a hyphen when hyphenating a word that appears in the assigned exception dictionary: this prevent words from being broken too close to their end. For example, entering <?thyeaft 3> means that the word 'hyphenated' could not be broken as 'hyphenat-ed'.
Syntax
<?thyeaft chars:n>
<?thyeaft>
[no parameter]
Invoke the Hyphenation - min chars after exception hyphen dialog box.
chars
The number of characters
Additional Information
The existing <?thyaft> property also controls the minimum characters that should appear after 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 <?thyaft> 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. <thyeaft> was implemented to deal with this scenario as well.
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