I thought this link was rather interesting...
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
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...if only because that's what I'd pretty much accomplished.
Before I'd coded my book the way that I did, it looked pretty much like the Word example given on that page, with tons of hyphenation all over the place (way more than was needed), but after I'd added "selective hyphenation" to my book -- which I'd been doing manually before, but which would have now been incredibly easy to do using a regex S&R -- it looked pretty much like the LaTex example given there.
I have to admit, though, that while you all have convinced me to just scrap it, and just let hyphenation happen wherever the device (or app) sees fit, and only turn it "off" myself for things like headings, at the same time I can't say that I'm entirely convinced that what I was doing was, indeed, totally such a bad thing to do. I was actually pretty proud of what I'd been doing, I thought it had been working out remarkably well, especially since I'd tested it out at all kinds of different font sizes, etc...
...but on the plus side, it certainly does make things a lot easier for me, coding-wise, to just not even think about it at all anymore. I still can't help but wonder, though, if you've all inadvertently convinced me to scrap something that was, in fact, a really good idea. :/