On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:55:20 -0700 Karl Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:
> UAX 29 says this: > > Break after paragraph separators. > SB4. Sep | CR | LF > > Why are CR and LF considered to be paragraph separators? NEL and > Line Break are as well. > > My mental model of plain text has it containing embedded characters, > which I'll call \n, to allow it to be displayed in a terminal window > of a given width. Not all text is like that, of course, but there is > an awful lot that is. This rule makes no sense to me. There are two types of plain text - that which requires explicit line-breaking, and that which does not. This is a case where a non-linguistic tailoring is required. TUS has a whole section on the issue, namely TUS 7.0.0 Section 5.8. One thing that is missing is mention of the convention that a single newline character (or CRLF pair) is a line break whereas a doubled newline character denotes a paragraph break. Richard. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
