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kdejute
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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.