This is the hyphentation module for Hakyll static site generator which can be used to produce nicer text columns aligned to both left and right side, just like in printed papers. To archive this, it injects invisible soft hyphenation character (U+00AD) into each word at every allowed position. This character means that the position it occured in is eligible for line break. All modern browsers will interpret these characters correctly: they'll be shown only in case when line break actually occured, otherwise leaving them invisible.

Here is simple usage pattern for producing hyphenated texts, for example, English and Russian:

import Hakyll.Contrib.Hyphenation (hyphenateHtml, english_US, russian)

match "posts/*" $ do
    route   $ setExtension "html"
    compile $ pandocCompiler
               >>= hyphenateHtml english_US
               >>= hyphenateHtml russian
               >>= loadAndApplyTemplate "..." ctx
               >>= relativizeUrls

Of course, this approach has its downsides you must be aware of, so use it with caution. Some of these downsides:

• generated HTML code will slightly increase in size;
• soft hyphens will remain in text copied and pasted;
• the text may be displayed in a wrong way in some rare situations (for example, in old Unicode-unaware browsers).

Taking these into account, you may better prefer to try CSS3 “hypens” property instead, or not to use text hyphenation at all.