>> For example, TeX's hyphenation works on glyphs instead of >> characters. > > Seems to me like a good idea: two different glyphs for the > same character might have widely differing metrics.
It's a very bad idea since hyphenation is completely independent from
the used glyphs and fonts!
Perhaps there is a misunderstanding: I'm talking about the process of
finding all possible breakpoints within a word.
Werner
