Thai formatting in FrameMaker 2015

Report · Jun 17, 2015

Hi,

I’m looking at Thai in FrameMaker 2015 and while there are no issues with the text displaying correctly, I’m having trouble with the formatting. The text is not wrapping at the end of the line. Where there is a space indicating the end of a sentence, if the next sentence is too long to fit on the line, it gets knocked down to the next line rather than breaking somewhere in the middle, which is leaving large gaps in the paragraph. Any suggestions as to how to stop this from happening so that the text wraps normally or is this not possible? I know that the line endings may not be grammatically correct if the text wraps but we have a workaround for that part.

Many thanks,

Kate

Report · Jun 18, 2015

I haven't a clue about typesetting Thai. But here are some ideas:

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Try using non-breaking spaces (and hyphens etc), so the line no longer breaks prematurely at the end of a sentence. Lines should then break only when they reach the right margin. Presumably this will be at a grammatically incorrect location, but you said you had a workaround for this.
Choose Format > Document > Text Options, and play around with the Allow Line Breaks After setting. I don't know how many characters you can specify here, but there might well be a limit of some power of 2 (e.g. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc). I believe that certain characters are hard-wired; for example, you cannot use this setting to prevent line breaks after a space.
Try different settings for the paragraph's Language. This might change the algorithm used for line breaks. An Asian language might give better behavior than a Western one.