Thread: Soft Hyphens
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Old 08-25-2008, 08:36 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by WillAdams View Post
Soft hyphens are invaluable for indicating a valid/correct hyphenation point in a word-phrase which one knows an automated system will (or probably / likely will) handle incorrectly.
Exactly. And this is especially important in languages were you create new words by concatenating two words. Or what you want to do is to create a word list with exception like you do in LaTeX.
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