There is an easy solution to one of the hyphenation problems. When the ebook is being created, optional hyphens should be added by the creator to all the valid hyphenation positions in all the words in the book.
The creator would use software to automate the insertion of the hyphens, and said software ask for help on words it hadn't already been told about, or which might have different hyphenations depending on context. This hyphenation position marking should be a quick and simple process, as most words will already be in the software's hyphenation dictionary. It can even suggest hyphenations to the operator for unknown words using language-specific algorithms. Most of the time the operator will just have to agree.
The problem of valid hyphenation positions is now solved - the rendering software needs no intelligence, it has only to hyphenate at the optional hyphen positions.
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Originally Posted by ahi
Keep, reading, I guess. (Note that "not machine-solved yet" != "machine-solvable".)
- Ahi
Ps.: Or why don't I help you out...
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