Thread: Soft Hyphens
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Old 08-23-2009, 08:39 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by ahi View Post
... because it is literally impossible for software automation to get hyphenation correct without considerable human intervention for a book of any meaningful size.
Literally impossible?

The set of words (and their derivative forms) used in any language is huge, but still finite set. The current tools for automated hyphenation might not be up to the task, but it is definitely theoretically possible to create a complete database, and from there a "perfect" tool for automation of that task.
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