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- French Typographical Rules—Introduction
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17.03 French Typographical Rules—Word division
Divide a word at the end of a line as follows:
- between two consonants (car-gaison, ex-caver, dic-taphone);
- before a consonant separating two vowels (cargai-son, poly-culture);
- between the two parts of a compound (bloc-moteur, coûts-bénéfices);
- between recognizable logical components of a word (électro-statique; trans-action);
- between two vowels in compounds, unless the second vowel belongs to the first part of the compound (extra-ordinaire, ré-unir but oléo-duc).
See 2.04 Compound adjectives; adjectives and participles in compounds(j) for information on the hyphenation of French words used as compound adjectives.
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