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From: Philip Kiff
Date: Jan 12, 2021 9:00AM

On 2021-01-12 10:16, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> But again, if shy were used exclusively for meaningful hyphenation off auto-hyphenation, it would also help to realize 3.1.6., I'd suppose. Two flies at once: meaningful visual hyphenation and pronunciation.

Patrick Lauke wrote:

> Soft hyphenation characters are not intended to be pronounced/announced.
> They're a signal that this is a potential hyphenation point to
> *visually* break the word. Speech synthesizers should not pause, as they shouldn't pause for CSS automatic hyphenation.
>
> P

The only time I can recall purposely using shy is in a table header
cell: to manually position a line break in a word in order to allow the
column width to be thinner so it more closely matched the width of the
data in the column. It was definitely not meant to be meaningful when I
used it: purely cosmetic or visual.

Phil.

Philip Kiff
D4K Communications