Reply To: Numbers adjacent to hyphens Home › Forums › Nemeth Code for Math and Science › Numbers adjacent to hyphens › Reply To: Numbers adjacent to hyphens October 4, 2016 at 7:30 am #27539 kdejuteModerator Thank you for the question, Lynda. A hyphen as a mark of punctuation does not indicate that material be transcribed in Nemeth. A hyphen is not a modification of a number. So, neither "8-ounce" nor "10-20 ounces" need be transcribed in Nemeth.