Hadrien, looking forward to your thoughts / comments. You can see some of what I've done in the TeX / LaTeX world in the TeX Showcase (
http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/ ) as well as my portfolio (
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/willadams/portfolio.html ). Also, I was the TUG 2003 proceedings editor (and eventually managed to get my own presentation written up,
http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/.../tb77adams.pdf )
JSWolf, everyone, agreed, the lack of hyphenation is bizarre in that it'd be really easy to support by just allowing manually inserted soft hyphens to function --- given the rules of English this would require tagging the text for each word's part of speech / usage to do it automatically, but that's something which will need to happen eventually for AI research.
William