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From: Kevin Grittner <[email protected]>
To: Dmitry Igrishin <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Typo.
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 07:44:17 -0500
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Dmitry Igrishin <[email protected]> wrote:

> In "Internal position: this is defined the same as the P field, but it
> is used when the cursor position refers to an internally generated",
> "internally generated" should be replaced with "internally-generated".

Not according to, for example, the Chicago Manual of Style:

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/images/ch07_tab01.pdf

(See the "adverb ending in ly + participle or adjective" category.)

I'm pretty sure that this has been discussed on this list before
and decided in favor of omitting the hyphenation in such cases.

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Kevin Grittner
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