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e12e 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The web just gets better with Interop 2024

text-wrap: balance; is all well and good - but does browsers finally do a decent job of hyphenation with hyphens: auto;?

Last i checked TeX/LaTeX did a lot better.

I don't so much mind showing a  in a title/headline - but it gets really tedious and error prone for body text...

roca 9 months ago [–]

TeX/LaTeX don't compete on performance and don't handle dynamic document updates. Browser text layout is a much harder problem.

e12e 9 months ago | [–]

I don't think that's true today. Big difference running TeX on a 7Mhz 68000 and a 8 core multi GHz cpu.

See also:

https://hyphenation.org/

https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenopoly

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