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Old 12-26-2008, 07:53 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
But it does break at hyphens, it just uses a different configuration (\exhyphenpenalty, if I remember correctly).
Maybe the penalty is just so high that I have not seen it very often and assumed it was a hard rule.

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When typesetting a book that will be printed or "fixed" as PDF. There's many things you can try to tweak and avoid. Yes, avoiding breaks at explicit hyphens, dashes, even after the word "I", is desirable. But with a reflowable text in a small screen, you cannot be as demanding as with a printed book (yet).
I wonder if this is true. Maybe the TeX typesetting algorithm will work for ebook readers. As I see it the most important things is that you have to typeset on the paragraph level and not just line for line.
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