Hello Richard,

On 2018/06/02 20:37, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:

Am 2018-06-02 um 06:44 schrieb Richard Wordingham via Unicode:
In Latin text, one can indicate permissible line break opportunities
between grapheme clusters by inserting U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN.  What
low-end schemes, if any, exist for such mark-up within grapheme
clusters?

1) In the sequence

<letter-0, character-1, ZWSP, character-2, letter-1>

realisation of the break should definitely result in <letter-0,
character-1> on one line and in <character-2, letter-1> on the next
line, whereas in visual order, character-2 should precede character-1.

My question goes a bit further than to Doug's: Why would you want to do such a thing? Are there actual scripts/languages where line breaks within grapheme clusters occur? If yes, what are there? Can you show actual examples, e.g. scans of documents,...?

In writing systems, there are almost always exceptions to simple rules, but in general, breaking a line *within* a grapheme cluster seems to be a bad idea.

Regards,   Martin.

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