Re: Authority For Western Line Breaking Rules

> For background, Annex 14 is very permissive, implicitly allowing line 
> breaks wherever they are not explicitly disallowed and does not, for 
> example, disallow breaks following closing punctuation, allowing for 
> example, this break:
> 
> "e.
> g., a thing"
> 
> That is, Annex 14 allows this break, even though it would be wrong in 
> any Western language I'm familiar with.
> 

It would be worthwile to make line breaks table-driven and language-dependent
in the same way word breaks are.

David Tolpin
http://davidashen.net/

 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list