Hyphenation is overrated

Posted Nov 10, 2015 15:55 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Hyphenation is overrated by Cyberax
Parent article: What's new in TeX, part 2

Because e-readers, phones, etc, have small screens. You don't always want to carry a huge screen around with you!

Also, the recommended (for good reason) line lengths of single lines is not many more times than the average length of a word -- so for longer words, a way of splitting them will *always* be needed for good appearance.