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Old 08-25-2008, 10:39 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
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.
You can do this with CSS3 and that's exactly what I meant when I said "soft hyphens should be the exception not the rule". Most of the time it's better to let the reading system handle the hyphenation with hyphenation patterns (this way, you can select different patterns if you'd like). But for some words (in technical documentations for example) you'll have to specify "manually".
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