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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The thing is, people who create there own eBooks are not going to want to be having to add soft hyphens. That's just too much of a bother.
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There are people who claim that correct spelling and use of commas are just too much of a bother. The fact that a lot of people want to ignore production standards doesn't mean it's reasonable to accept their laziness as the default.
Currently, the problem is that ereaders don't consistently support soft hyphens. Whether or not it would be "easy" to add the Tex hyphenation routine to readers, authors and publishers should be able to establish specific hyphenations for unique words--character and place names, scientific or magical terms, neologisms that haven't been added to the protocols yet, and so on.