A simple hyphenation engine that uses the Knuth–Liang hyphenation algorithm originally developed for TeX. This implementation is a port of Ned Batchelder's @link["http://nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/hyphenate.html"]{Python version}. I have added little to their work. Accordingly, I take little credit.
I originally put together this module to handle hyphenation for my web-based book @link["http://practicaltypography.com"]{Butterick's Practical Typography} (which I made with Racket & Scribble). Though support for CSS-based hyphenation in web browsers is @link["http://caniuse.com/#search=hyphen"]{still iffy}, soft hyphens work reliably well. But putting them into the text manually is a drag. Thus a module was born.
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The module operates in two modes: fast and safe. Fast mode is the default, which you get by importing the module in the usual way: @code{(require hyphenate)}.
Safe mode enables the function contracts documented below. Use safe mode by importing the module as @code{(require (submod hyphenate safe))}.
