[ICU4J-discussion] Re: Line breaking aaa(aaa: ICU 1.7

[Alan L. <al...@fi...>]

If we have a bunch of rules which are really of the nature "don't break after/before x", then we should really think about extending the engine to support this explicitly.

At 12:59 PM 2/9/2001 -0800, Edward J. Batutis wrote:

>--- Eric Mader <er...@us...> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Ed,
>> 
>> I've looked at the rules in the Unicode book, but
>> didn't get very far. I
>> found the same thing that you did. The book
>> specifies a lot of rules that
>> say "don't break here" which are not easy to express
>> as RBBI rules. 
>
>It's clear how to implement rules like "don't break
>between x and y" but rules like "don't break after p"
>are mind-boggling. Rules like "don't break before r"
>aren't too bad, but you have to apply these rules over
>and over to subsequent rules. There might be a similar
>way to implement the "don't break after p" type rules
>- reapply them to every other subsequent rule in a
>cumulative fashion. It is a puzzle. I'll let you know
>if I come up with anything reasonable.
>
>=Ed
>
>
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