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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I dont really see the point of soft hyphens, since some automated process is going to put them in place anyway, why not just let an automated procvess in the reader software handle hyphenation?
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Automated hyphenation might be decently implemented for English language, but I doubt that the same is true for myriad of living (and dead ?) languages.
In the future, a professional hyphenation tool (based on OED database?) might emerge that will do a better job than the automated process. If the author wants to invest effort to fix hyphenation (or to purposely tweak it), why not allow them to do so?
IMHO, the automated hyphenation should be clever enough to shut itself off when soft hyphen characters are present in the source of the word at the edge of the screen.