Not sure there's a "standard," but if you preserve both forms using

  <reg orig="ex-ample">example</reg>

or its converse

  <orig reg="example">ex-ample</orig>

you may be able to have your cake and eat it too.

Greg Murray
XML/Text Programmer
Digital Library Production Services
University of Virginia Library
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Charles Faulhaber wrote:

> Is there a standard way to treat hyphenation such that hyphenated words at
> the ends of lines can be treated for computational purposes as the
> equivalent of non-hyphenated words within a line?
>
> Many thanks,
>
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