bryan wrote:
I am trying to find an authority for the rules by which Western
languages are composed into lines, in particular, the rules for where
line breaks are allowed.
What do you mean by authority, hopefully not something on the order of
ISO?
Do you mean something like this:
http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html#8
Although perhaps a philologically oriented rule, as in the tradition of
line breakage was established....?
This is the sort of authority I had in mind. It didn't even occur to me
to look in _Elements of Style_.
I also agree with David Tolpin that line breaking has to be quite
configurable in a multi-language FO context--the Unicode line breaking
properties are far from sufficient to inform appropriate line-breaking
behavior and, in the case of Western languages, will absolutely lead to
undesired results if followed blindly.
Thanks,
E.
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W. Eliot Kimber
ISOGEN International, LLC
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