Shorthand - not to leave a space after a hyphen when typing an expansion? - sm
Posted: May 12, 2011
Hi all. I would like to know what the best way is to not leave a space after a hyphen when typing an expansion, such as 2-centimeter, etc. I know the formula to make it backspace once, such as with my expansion for -year-old, but thought there might be a better way for this one that I'm not thinking of? Like a way that would work with any hyphen-word combo?
Thanks!
Shorthand fix maybe - s
[ In Reply To ..]
{@KEY BkSp}-cm or {@KEY BkSp}-centimeters in your shorthand program will take care of it
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