Thread: Soft Hyphens
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Old 08-12-2009, 12:56 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
I dont really see the point of soft hyphens, since some automated process is going to put them in place anyway, why not just let an automated procvess in the reader software handle hyphenation?
... because it is literally impossible for software automation to get hyphenation correct without considerable human intervention for a book of any meaningful size.

I find it incredible, by the way, that this question was posed at all!

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