<P> We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America...</P> <P> We, therefore, the represen - tatives of the United States of America...</P> <P> The details of doing this properly are complex and language - dependent, and can interact with other orthographic and typesetting practices . Hyphenation algorithms, when employed in concert with dictionaries, are sufficient for all but the most formal texts . See also justification . </P> <P> It may be necessary to distinguish an incidental line - break hyphen from one integral to a word being mentioned (as when used in a dictionary) or present in an original text being quoted (when in a critical edition)--not only to control its word wrap behavior (which encoding handles with hard and soft hyphens having the same glyph) but also to differentiate appearance (with a different glyph). Merriam - Webster's Third New International Dictionary and the Chambers Dictionary use a double hyphen for integral hyphens and a single hyphen for line - breaks, whereas Kromhout's Afrikaans--English dictionary uses the opposite convention . The Concise Oxford Dictionary (fifth edition) repeated an integral hyphen at the start of the following line . </P>

When is a hyphen used in a word