From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 19:18:50 EDT
On Friday, August 08, 2003 9:16 PM, Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 07/08/2003 13:57, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > ... But an immediate problem comes to mind: what if there is a
> > line break between the two base characters?
>
> What if there is a line break between the two characters joined by a
> double width combining character?
>
> Are arbitrary line breaks in the middle of words actually permitted
> anyway? Presumably any line breaking property of the first base
> character of the pair is cancelled anyway. That leaves a problem only
> if the second base character has a line break before possibility.
> Well, that could just be treated as one of the sequences we were
> discussing yesterday, not illegal Unicode but its rendering is
> undefined.
Such break in a middle of a multiple width diacritic exist in some
notations, and are not considered "horrible typography".
Just look at musical notations where a upper horizontal parenthesis
is used to group some elements (sorry I don't know how you name
it exactly in English or Italian), despite there's a measure break
in the middle, which may span to the other musical line: you end
up with two parts for the same diacritic broken across the lines.
-- Philippe. Spams non tolérés: tout message non sollicité sera rapporté à vos fournisseurs de services Internet.
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