: Re: End-of-line hyphenation - how should it be used? End-of-line hyphenation is the process of breaking words between lines to create more consistency across a text block. (source) A long word is

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I don't know if this is an answer, but answers shouldn't be in comments, so I'll take a gamble.

In college, I took as a humanity "Mideval English Literature." Apparently, mid-
dle and old English followed this practice to the extreme and with poor judgem-
ent even in cases when it wasn't used to the extreme. I seem to recall our pro-
fessor commented that English literature drastically cut back on its use at so-
me point in reaction to the horrors that had once been committed, back in the
day.

There are still quite a few works that use hyphenation, but only very
sparsely. It seems to mostly be a thing to use to prevent full justifi-
cation from making a line especially spaced out due to a long word being
wrapped close to its end.

But when a book of 110,000 words hyphenates three words, you tend to not notice that it did it at all.

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