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Originally Posted by ahi
LaTeX makes (not quantitatively but qualitatively) considerable use of hyphenation for paragraph breaking and related tasks, but it still trips up on words I would expect to long have made it into the hyphenation dictionaries, not to mention proper names...
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As far as I know, LaTeX does not use hyphenation dictionaries, but patterns, that is, algorithms that try to predict where each word can be hyphenated without having to store hyphenation points for every word. In my experience, it often works pretty well, at least in Spanish (which is relatively easy, anyway). But there's no reason why reading devices or software could not include more sophisticated hyphenation schemes, patterns, dictionaries or whatever, which should depend on the language of the book and be disable-able.