Re: [tlug] line-breaking in Japanese with '(' and ')'?

["Stuart Woodward" <stuart@example.com>]

On 7/26/07, Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo@example.com> wrote:

> On the dev-l10n list there is a discussion about how to do
> line-breaking in Japanese with '(' and ')' characters. I haven't seen
> any rules for those characters particularly, does anyone know if they
> count as punctuation in the same way as the Japanese full-stop and
> comma?
>
> Or alternatively, any documentation on this, I am at a loss as what
> exactly to search for in Japanese here.

The magic word is "kinsoku".. Searching on Google brings up documents like this:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/13.0/help.html?content=WS031BFA52-4860-45d2-A8EC-8C4A998BCF4F.html

I implemented this once for the Japanese version Lotus Freelance
Graphics. Beer could revive more detailed memories about this.

Stuart

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