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Originally Posted by ahi
Overly optimistic faith in progress on problems that are very simple to identify and define but difficult (arguably impossible) to get right 100% of the time is always suspicious to me.
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Yes, I'm an idealist
I would like to think some future device might allow the
user to tag a word as wrongly-hyphenated and add it to some hyphenation exceptions dictionary (which could then be exported and shared).
Anyway, the hyphenation system does not need to be perfect to be useful. Not every valid hyphenation point has to be identified, but if enough valid points (and few invalid ones) are, the typographic quality of the text can significantly improve from the non-hyphenated text. This would be the first goal.
Another possibility would be to have each book carry its own list of hard words to hyphenate. The reader would then know how to deal with them. Wrong hyphenations would be the fault of the book creator, not of the format or the reading software... exactly the case of PDFs.
