word breaks

Where syllables divide

Word breaks are the points where text can be divided at the end of a line.

In typesetting and word processing, the software determines where to break words, either at spaces between words or with hyphens within words: Adjust the word breaks to fix that ragged margin.

In programming, word break refers to characters like spaces or punctuation that separate tokens.

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page layout · pagination · hard return · tokenization · return · spacebar · soft hyphen · syllabification · orthography · syllable · whitespace · enter · reading · delimiter · text alignment · writing · tab · indent

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text continuity

word breaksscriptio continua

Text lacking word boundaries

concatenation · ligatures · agglutination · Chinese characters

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