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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The thing is, people who create there own eBooks are not going to want to be having to add soft hyphens. That's just too much of a bother.
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Why wouldn't it be automated? Unless you're slinging raw html (name one author who does that), you're never going to know. Authors write in word processors. The output is then processed and processed and processed, and the end result is HTML. There's no reason why there couldn't or shouldn't be a hyphenation pass somewhere in there. Authors without editors can just use the automated output as-is (which would be no worse than existing readers that do auto hyphenation). Authors with editors can and should do a final editorial pass to make sure things are hyphenating correctly and to add exceptions where hyphenation is not desired or where automated hyphenation did the wrong thing.