On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 00:36:23 +0100 Egmont Koblinger via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Now, back to terminals. > > The smallest possible viable definition of a "paragraph" in terminal > emulators is stuff between one newline and the next one. > > It would require a hell lot of work, redesigning (overcomplicating) > plenty of basics of terminal emulation to be able to come up with > smaller units, e.g. cells of a table – a concept that doesn't > currently exist in this world –, I don't find any such approach > feasible at all. The concept appears to exist in the form of the fields of the fifth edition of ECMA-48. Have you digested this ambitious standard? ECMA-48 has the concept of hyphenation and wrapping! (Well, in Appendix C it does. I haven't fully tied it in with the receipt of characters.) Richard.
