### Insert Hyphen

Choose the desired type of hyphen here. The offered hyphens are basically used as described hereafter:

Long Dash

  This is a long hyphen (Em-dash) which should basically be used only to visualize a filled in thought in a text.

  Example:
  iCalamus is a fantastic DTP app—besides that you can use it for other purposes too—and offers many options.

Short Dash

  This hyphen has En-width and will be used basically as a 'Minus', and as a 'from–to' hyphen, etc.

Soft Hyphen

  If you want a word to be hyphened by iCalamus without creating and showing a hyphen, use this soft hyphen. Use it to hyphen phrases with special characters (e.g. the & sign like in 'black&white') without entering an additional hyphen which would mix up the phrase. The control character itself will never be shown, it is only recognized by the text formatting.

Nonbreaking Hyphen

  This hyphen looks like a basic hyphen, but it will never be recognized in text flow. That means if you want phrases like 'T-Online' to be protected against hyphenation, use the nonbreaking hyphen.

Hint: In general, you must not type in hyphens yourself in your text for hyphenation purposes. Entering [–][Return] to force a hyphenation at a distinct text position may be extremely dangerous, and may result in damaged text. If you change the text afterwards, you would then have to manually find all hyphe- nations which you have ad- ded your- self before. (Or else it looks as shown right here.)