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Old 09-23-2010, 01:02 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I do not see why readers cannot implement the LaTex way of doing hyphenation and then the issue of left vs full would be a lot less of an issue. We'd then choose full as we would not have such wide caverns between words.
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LaTex is an "off-line" text processor. Its hyphenation algorithm, excellent though it is, could probably not be implemented in real time by the comparatively slow CPUs that eBook readers use.
I think Jon is not asking for the full LaTeX apparatus, but just for the hyphenation algorithm. In principle, it could even be separated from the line-breaking algorithm (finding the best linebreaks in a paragraph). I don't think something like this would be tremendously resource-costly for current readers, very likely not more than a web browser...
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