> What if that functionality were added to the parser instead of the
> viewer?  When the parser reads an HTML file and an "auto-hyphenate"
> option is set, the parser will insert a "soft" hyphen (­)
> everywhere any word might legally be hyphenated.  Then, the viewer might
> be modified so that when it encounters a soft hyphen, it will only
> display it if the word is actually broken at that position.

Yes, I think this is the right way to do it.  But we'd need an
algorithm (dictionary-based?) to get the insertion of those soft
hyphens right.  Anyone know what the right one to use is?  Let's
just start with English...

Bill

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