Categories Line breaking rules in East Asian languages

1 categories

1.1 characters not permitted on start of line
1.2 characters not permitted @ end of line
1.3 not split

categories

regarding prohibited characters, there conventions called house rules , characteristic rules of publishers. furthermore, there many publishers rules contradict other publishers ones. reason, there lots of conventions not supported western dtp software tools, , main cause of growing demand of computerized phototypesetting systems.

characters not permitted on start of line

closing brackets


)]｝〕〉》」』】〙〗〟’ ｠»


japanese characters not allowed @ start of line


ヽヾーァィゥェォッャュョヮヵヶぁぃぅぇぉっゃゅょゎゕゖㇰㇱㇲㇳㇴㇵㇶㇷㇸㇹㇺㇻㇼㇽㇾㇿ々〻

(note: above rule applies small (chiisai) kana. full size kana can start line.)

hyphens


‐゠–〜


delimiters


?!‼⁇⁈⁉


mid-sentence punctuation


・、:;,


sentence-ending punctuation


。.

note: kinsoku shori not apply japanese characters while 1 line contains not enough characters

characters not permitted @ end of line

opening brackets


([｛〔〈《「『【〘〖〝‘ ｟«

do not split

characters can t separated


—…‥〳〴〵


numbers
grouped characters


一昨日（おととい） (kanji sequences have ruby characters not have clear mapping underlying kanji characters (jukujikun))