Talking of algorithms, does Readable use something like the Knuth and Plass line break algo used by LaTeX? A Javascript implementation was mentioned a while ago on HN[1].
Good luck with Readable, anything that helps reduce clutter (in any part of life) is a great gift. Thanks for sharing!
No; Readable doesn't use anything like the Knuth and Plass algorithm.
But I did thoroughly check out the JS implementation you mentioned; and Readable will probably use a part of the Knuth algorithm in the future -- as I am planning to support hanging quotation marks, hyphenation, as well as better (typographic) justification.
For hyphenation you might also want to check out my Hypher project (https://github.com/bramstein/Hypher) which is a minimal hyphenation engine written in JavaScript. In my benchmarks it is about 4 times faster than Hyphenator.js (and a lot smaller.)