Ian Hickson (2010-12-07): > On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Christoph Päper wrote:
Sorry for replying late. >> However, I believe the underlying problem is simply that “line break” is >> (too) often used and understood as a synonym for “new line”, at least by >> non-native speakers. Speaking of breaks on line or paragraph level >> therefore makes more sense to me. > > I don't really understand the difference. Here comes a *line break* that always means a visual *new line* like here, whereas a *break on line level* // may look differently – and may actually be rendered with orthographic possibilities (dashes, parentheses etc.) instead of markup, when they’re textual content, not structure. >>> (A "minor logical break inside a paragraph" is not generally >>> represented by a line break, at least not in any typographic >>> conventions I've seen; usually, in my experience, those are denoted >>> either using ellipses, em-dashes, or parentheses.) >> >> That’s true for real paragraphs, but not for most “non-paragraphic” >> texts, e.g. addresses. > > The lines in an address are separate "oral lines", not "minor logical breaks > inside a pragraph". Addresses (with multpile lines) are a concept native to written, not to spoken language.
