In Chinese typesetting, we do not care if two characters are from the same word. We break the words whenever they reach the page margin. So yes, we can break in the middle of a word.
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 206-667-4385 Web: http://yihui.name Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v...@lyx.org> wrote: > Op 24-7-2013 20:55, Yihui Xie schreef: >> As far as I know, there are no kernings and ligatures in Chinese. All >> Chinese characters are "independent" and of exactly the same width, so >> it is OK to calculate the string length by simply counting the number >> of characters. >> >> This post might help for the Unicode ranges: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1366068/whats-the-complete-range-for-chinese-characters-in-unicode >> >> One issue to keep in mind is that when you deal with a mixture of >> Chinese and ASCII characters, different rules should be applied >> depending on which characters are on the margin, e.g. suppose >> "你好hello" reaches the margin, and you can break the Chinese phrase: >> >> [...]你 >> 好hello[...] > > In this case, the two chinese characters are two separate words. If the > two characters form a single word, can you then also break in the middle > of the word, i.e. between the two characters ? > > Vincent > >
