Hyphens here are meant to be formatting. You would be correct if this was a literary piece, but handbooks and sheets don't need to use these rules.
Hyphens here are meant to be formatting. You would be correct if this was a literary piece, but handbooks and sheets don't need to use these rules.
It's a misuse because in this context the hyphen could be mis-construed as a negative amount, and this causes the reader to stop and carefully re-read the content to ensure that they're not misinterpreting it. That's not where you want to be spending your reader's attention.