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How would this work? You cannot know the exact flow of text on each and every platform, so you would end up just manually specifying every possible hyphenation.
by matt4077 8y ago
How would this work? You cannot know the exact flow of text on each and every platform, so you would end up just manually specifying every possible hyphenation. That would seem to be a lot of work to create something that's almost definitely going to contain far more errors than a somewhat complete dictionary that ships with the browser.
- quotemstr 8y agoWhat about words that the browser doesn't know about? While automatic hyphenation point insertion is convenient, I want to retain the ability to provide manual overrides.
- frosted-flakes 8y agoSimple. Using a hyphenation dictionary, automatically insert soft hyphens at the optimal position in every word before delivery to the client. I haven't seen this done in practice, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.