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Re:Long S by CGamesPlay on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:23AM (#21710771)
> Before a hyphen at the end of the line a long ſ must always be used, for example Shaftſ-bury.
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Re:Long S by seszett on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:51AM (#21711122)
That's when hyphenating a word, not between different words linked by hyphens.
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Re:Long S by OJFord on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:32AM (#21711297)
That's exactly what a hyphenated word is.
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Re:Long S by monadgonad on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:20AM (#21712417)
No. "Hyphenating a word" here means when a whole word is split by a hyphen to continue on the next line of a justified column of text. In that case only, a long s is used before the hyphen.
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Re:Long S by yorwba on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:51AM (#21711117)
The hyphen is not at the end of the line. Shaftſ-

bury is just Shaftſbury with a hyphenated line break.

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