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https://github.com/bramstein/typeset This is an implementation of the line breaking algorithm used in TeX in Javascript.

For anyone that wants to have a good read, try reading the TeX-book's section on hyphenation. Tons of fun that goes over some of the difficulties.

As a fun trivia, think where to hyphenate the word record. In all forms.

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As recently as a year ago, Chrome support of automatic hyphenation only worked on some platforms. If the support is better now, I'm glad to hear it.

It is not. They have not made progress.

maybe something like :

https://github.com/ytiurin/hyphen Franklin M. Liang's hyphenation algorithm, implemented in Javascript.

could be integrated.