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Originally Posted by frabjous
The point is, LaTeX already knows where it's appropriate to put soft-hyphens, or if it doesn't, can be extended to.
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The plausibility of hyphenation software being as good as a human being was discussed already. After some superhuman amount of distributed effort (presumably going on for years, if not decades) it might start to approach.
In the meantime, with an average-sized book, an hour or two worth of human attention will continue to achieve the same thing. We're definitely desperately looking for suboptimal solutions to already solved problems.
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Originally Posted by frabjous
If we're going to be using very different line lengths and page sizes than has been typical in past typography, we're simply not going to be able to demand the same things.
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I will be demanding a fixed layout and (at least some) manual attention. Given how little this actually requires from the publisher... I'm not sure why others see it as impractically onerous.
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