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Using the Kinsoku Shori (line breaking) option


    Where a line breaks in CJK text is generally determined by the boundaries of the text bounding box, the size of the characters, and the amount of spacing between the characters. In general, a line breaks when there is no more room for the next character.

    Illustrator allows for control of characters that must not end a line, begin a line, or be divided over two lines. Selecting the Kinsoku Shori option and by using the options in the Kinsoku Shori dialog box, you can control how these characters are handled during line breaking, and you can choose which sets of characters to include. For example, you can have a line of text compressed to accommodate a punctuation mark (such as an end quotation mark), which must remain on the same line as the text it encloses.

    Text without Kinsoku Shori option compare to text with Kinsoku Shori option.
    Text without Kinsoku Shori option compare to text with Kinsoku Shori option.

To specify a character set for breaking lines:

  1. If the paragraph options aren't visible in the Paragraph palette, choose Show Options from the palette menu.
  2. Select the Kinsoku Shori option.
  3. In the Kinsoku Shori pop-up menu, choose a character set to which to apply line breaking rules.
    • Hard includes all characters that should not begin or end a line.
    • Soft includes a subset of the hard characters. This option is selected by default.

    Hard Set

    2-byte characters

    2-byte characters included in Kinsoku Shori Hard set

    1-byte characters

    1-byte characters included in Kinsoku Shori sets

    Soft Set

    2-byte characters

    2-byte characters included in Kinsoku Shori Soft set

    1-byte characters

    1-byte characters included in Kinsoku Shori sets
    Characters included in Kinsoku Shori Hard set and Kinsoku Shori Soft set.
    Text with Kinsoku Shori Soft set compared to text with Kinsoku Shori Hard set.
    Text with Kinsoku Shori Soft set compared to text with Kinsoku Shori Hard set.

    Note: With the addition of single-byte characters, the Soft set is consistent with the set included in the Kinsoku Shori option of Adobe Illustrator 5.5J; the Hard set is consistent with the set of Adobe Illustrator 7.x.

To set line breaking options:

  1. If the paragraph options aren't visible in the Paragraph palette, choose Show Options from the palette menu.
  2. Choose Kinsoku Shori from the Paragraph palette menu.
  3. Select options to apply to the character set selected in the Kinsoku Shori option in the Paragraph palette:
    • Oikomi Maximum Spacing includes the character on the same line and condenses all characters evenly to fit on the line (when text is justified). In the text box, enter a maximum value by which to condense text. When the option is unselected, the character is moved to the next line and characters on the original line are evenly spaced to fill the width (or height) of the line. This option is selected by default.
    • Don't Condense Space After Punctuation keeps spacing after a two-byte period uncondensed. This option is unselected by default.
    • Bunri Kinshi Moji Shori includes the .. , ... , and -- characters in the set of characters (Soft or Hard) to which line breaking rules are applied. This option is unselected by default.
    • Delete Space between Bunri Kinshi Moji closes up space between the .. , ... , and -- characters. This option is unselected by default.
    • Hang Punctuation Only If Space Unavailable ensures that text always hangs. This option is selected by default.
  4. Click OK.