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H
H [Greek symbol alpha] hydrogen-alpha; either abbreviate both words or spell both out. Do the same for hydrogen-beta and hydrogen-gamma.
hailfallone word, by analogy with rainfall
headingsOur typeset documents all have their own styles.
humidiometersynonym for hygrometer, equally common
HYPERchannela high-speed digital communications system manufactured by Network Systems Corporation. Spell this way.
hyphenUse for phone numbers, document section numbers, and other analogous situations.
Do not break words so that
one letter is left at the end of a line or two letters appear at the beginning of a line (a-cross and flamin-go are unacceptable hyphenations, even though the words are broken into syllables correctly)
what looks like an unrelated word is left at the end of a line (pet-ulant is an unfortunate hyphenation).
Avoid half-word widows at the end of a paragraph if they are shorter than the paragraph indent.
In layout, do not end a right-hand page with a hyphenated line.
If a sentence contains an em dash that falls at a line break, put the dash at the end of one line, not at the beginning of the next.
See also "line breaks".
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