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Old 09-23-2010, 01:12 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
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...
I don't know very much about LaTeX. Does it use a hyphenation dictionary? It might well be too slow to look up every word in a dictionary in real time.
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