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Old 08-25-2008, 01:54 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
I dont really see the point of soft hyphens, since some automated process is going to put them in place anyway, why not just let an automated procvess in the reader software handle hyphenation?
I agree: soft hyphens should be the exception rather than the rule. It's a much better idea to use hyphenation patterns and to allow these patterns to be embedded in the ePub file rather than adding soft hyphens in every XML flow. For example, in english, hyphenation rules are different for english and americans.

Take a look at: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-gcpm/#hyphenation
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