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Originally Posted by WillAdams
ath, the problem is it's not just a matter of marking h&j points, but of choosing good line breaks, and h&j is sometimes dependent on which part of speech a word is used for, so unless one is going to mark up every sentence for object, verb, direct object &c. it's not going to be possible to mark things up compleatly.
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So ... give me the tools that support that job. Give me a tool that provides for house-dependent hyphenation, adds discretionary hyphens where it can, flags ambiguous words for manual decisions, and leave those to me.
I'm not saying (even if you may be assuming so) that everything must be automatic. I'm saying that a good e-book formatting tool should be based on some kind of idea of what a good e-book is, finding out where the pain in that work really is, and relieve it. Producing well hyphenated lines in a e-book is such a pain.
So perhaps I should change my advise: go talk to a e-book designer, someone who does this for a living. Ask what kind of tool he or she would like.