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Old 01-25-2008, 01:14 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
As I say, virtually all printed books will break lines at a hyphen, but it's something that no e-book format (that I know of) does currently do.
I don't think this is a format issue, but rather a reader issue. For example, FBReader does automatic hyphenation no matter what format it is reading:
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Liang's algorithm is used. The same algorithm is used in TeX, and TeX hyphenation patterns are used in FBReader.
I have not noticed what FBReader does with actual (and soft) hypens, but I assume they line break as expected.
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