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Originally Posted by Hadrien
You can do this with CSS3 and that's exactly what I meant when I said "soft hyphens should be the exception not the rule". Most of the time it's better to let the reading system handle the hyphenation with hyphenation patterns (this way, you can select different patterns if you'd like). But for some words (in technical documentations for example) you'll have to specify "manually".
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In some languages like mentioned by tompe, the same word can be both a non-compound conjugated word and a non-conjugated compound word. Depending on which it is, different hyphenation pattern is called for. (And it might be difficult to impossible for the software to correctly guess based on context which sense the word is being used in, depending on the grammar of the given language.)
It is impossible for software automation to get hyphenation completely right even in a language like English, never mind languages that pose challenges like that.
- Ahi