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Originally Posted by JSWolf
To insert soft hyphens is just going to make a mess. Plus, it will blow up the size of the eBooks. There's no reason not to just use the Tex hyphenation routine.
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The size increase from adding soft hyphenation is minimal (an additional couple of bytes per word, on average -- adding soft hyphens to an entire book will likely cost less than a single map image or chapter start/end graphic). As for making a "mess", that depends on how you look at it. If you're looking at the raw HTML of an ebook, then yes, that's going to look very messy. But if you use a WYSIWYG-type editor (Sigil, for example), you're not really going to notice any difference. Tex hyphenation is decent as far as it goes, but it should be a one-time markup thing, not something that has to be done every time you open a book.
Soft hyphens let the book tell the reader how to hyphenate, which is cheap, easy, and an editorial process.