Improved line breaking by allowing abbreviations or replacements for certain words

[bennyboer]

The line breaking algorithm could be improved by allowing abbreviations or replacements for words that lead to a better line fit.
For example the word "abbreviation" when found could have a substitute like "abbr.".
Similarly the word "and" could be nicely substituted by "&".
It should be left to the user to decide what word should be able to be substituted.
We would need a dictionary of possible default substitutions where the user would be able to blacklist words they wouldn't like replaced.
Maybe an element like [no-sub]abbreviation and[/no-sub] could be introduced to prevent substitution.

Source: "Review of Automatic Document Formatting" (2009) p. 101 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1600193.1600217