craft-libs/crates/text

Craft Text

craft-text holds the text processing that sits below each app's composer: functions that take plain text and a language and return what layout needs before it shapes and places glyphs.

Module	Feature	Provides
hyphen	hyphen (default)	Hyphenation points
segment	segment (default)	Line-break opportunities with kinsoku; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Burmese words; grapheme-cluster emergency breaks
bidi	bidi (default)	Bidirectional text: embedding levels, line reordering, mirroring
linebreak	linebreak (default)	Line breaking on a box/glue/penalty model

Language features (spanish, german, …, all-languages) add the data for one language to every module that uses it, and turn those modules on. Build with default-features = false to leave out all modules and data.

Hyphenation

craft_text::hyphen finds hyphenation points. It returns byte offsets into the word: a hyphen may go before the char that starts at each offset. Line breaking, discretionary hyphens and exception lists stay in each application.

English

English is always available with hyphen and needs no language feature. Each word is looked up in this order:

1. the bundled dictionary (Dictionary::en_us): the Moby Hyphenator II word list, about 160,000 words. Simple inflections ('s, -s, -es, -ed, -d) inherit the breaks of their stem;
2. the bundled Liang patterns (assets/hyphen/en-us.pat), trained from the same list by the crate's patgen-style trainer;
3. a small syllable heuristic for words outside the pattern alphabet.

Case, apostrophes (don't, ’s), surrounding punctuation and compounds are handled; no break is placed next to an apostrophe or a non-letter. Dictionary::en_us() also serves as an English word list, for example for spelling checks.

Other languages

Other languages use the patterns compiled into hypher 0.1.8. Each has a cargo feature named as in hypher (spanish, german, norwegian, …); all-languages enables 46 of them. Patterns for languages whose feature is off are not compiled in.

Slovak's patterns are under the GPL, version 2 or later; the patterns of every other language are under a permissive license. craft-text asks for Slovak through the feature slovak-gpl, which all-languages leaves out; a build that enables it ships GPL-licensed data. Cargo unifies features, so another dependency that enables hypher's slovak feature (hypher's default features do) embeds the same data. A build that must exclude it checks its dependency graph (cargo tree -e features -i hypher).

use craft_text::hyphen::{Lang, Limits, hyphen_points_in};

fn points(word: &str, language: &str) -> Vec<usize> {
    match Lang::for_language(language) {
        Some(lang) => hyphen_points_in(word, &Limits::default(), lang),
        None => Vec::new(), // unknown language or feature off: don't hyphenate
    }
}

Lang::for_language accepts English language names as InDesign and IDML write them (Spanish, German: 2006 Reform, $ID/Norwegian: Bokmal) and locale codes (es, es_ES, pt-BR, de_DE_2006). It returns None for unknown languages and for languages not compiled in. Lang is Copy + Eq + Hash, so it can key a cache of computed points. Its Patterns variant holds an opaque PatternLang; build one with Lang::for_language.

Limits

Limits holds the paragraph's settings: minimum word length, letters before the first and after the last hyphen, and whether capitalized words are hyphenated. Words in all capitals are never hyphenated. Limit checks are linear in word length.

Regenerating the English data

examples/hyphgen.rs rebuilds assets/hyphen/en-us.dic and assets/hyphen/en-us.pat from the Moby list. It needs the generator feature, which exposes the dictionary writer (hyphen::dict) and the pattern trainer (hyphen::patgen); applications don't need it.

curl -LO https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3204/files/mhyph.txt
cargo run --release -p craft-text --features generator --example hyphgen -- mhyph.txt crates/text/assets/hyphen --validate

Segmentation

craft_text::segment finds where a line may break. It takes plain text and returns byte offsets; measuring, choosing breaks and hanging punctuation stay in each application's composer. Consolidated from vectorcraft, wordcraft, deckcraft and designcraft.

use craft_text::segment::{Kinsoku, Options, line_breaks};

let options = Options { kinsoku: Kinsoku::Soft, ..Options::default() };
for b in line_breaks("日本語のテキスト。", &options) {
    // A line may end before byte b.offset; it must if b.mandatory.
}

line_breaks starts from UAX #14 (the unicode-linebreak crate) and adjusts it:

• Options::kinsoku applies the Japanese and Chinese line-start and line-end rules (JLREQ, CLREQ) at breaks next to an East Asian character. Text with no East Asian characters gets UAX #14's breaks unchanged.
  • Hard (default): UAX #14's breaks, minus those kinsoku forbids.
  • Soft: as Hard, and 々, ー and small kana may start a line.
  • None: UAX #14's breaks plus a break between any two East Asian characters.
• Options::korean_words sets Korean word by word: no break between two Hangul letters or Han ideographs. Off, Korean breaks between syllables as UAX #14 does.
• Mandatory breaks (newlines and the end of the text) are always kept.

Options::for_language(language) gives the options for a paragraph's BCP 47 language tag, or for an unknown language (None): korean_words for Korean, the defaults otherwise.

When no opportunity leaves a line short enough, emergency_breaks(text, range) gives the places to break the piece text[range] anyway: byte offsets into text between extended grapheme clusters (UAX #29, through unicode-segmentation). An emoji ZWJ sequence, a flag or a letter with its marks is never split.

kinsoku_allows(before, after, mode) is the same rule for composers that build their own opportunity lists.

Each app's kinsoku as a Kinsoku value

App	App setting	Kinsoku	Rules the app keeps
vectorcraft	Kinsoku set None, Hard, Soft	None, Hard, Soft	none
wordcraft	kinsoku on, off	Hard, None	word_wrap off: Latin words break at any character
designcraft	no set (the breaker's own rules); Hard Kinsoku	Hard	custom document tables, inseparable pairs, bunri-kinshi, rensuuji, roman word break
designcraft	Soft, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean Kinsoku	Soft	as above
designcraft	Kinsoku set None	None	as above

Push-in and push-out priority and hanging punctuation decide how a line fits, not where it may break, and stay in the composer. deckcraft has no kinsoku of its own (see below).

Kinsoku sets for adopters

The sets are vectorcraft's (no_line_start, soft_line_start, no_line_end), plus these from the other apps:

• Can't start a line: 〞 (closing double prime quote), ゛ ゜ ﾞ ﾟ (spacing sound marks), ％ ￠ (postfixed abbreviations, JLREQ cl-13). From wordcraft.
• Can't end a line: ＄ ￡ ￥ (prefixed abbreviations, JLREQ cl-12). From wordcraft.

What changes for each app:

• vectorcraft: the additions above. Breaks come from UAX #14 rather than "after any CJK character", so Hard and Soft also keep every break UAX #14 forbids. Kinsoku no longer applies between two non-East-Asian characters (a space before an en dash in Latin text may break).
• wordcraft: its kinsoku on is Hard, which also keeps the prolonged sound mark, small kana, hyphens (‐ – 〜 ゠), ‼ ⁇ ⁈ ⁉ and the Latin closing marks next to East Asian text off the line start, and « ‘ “ ( [ { off the line end. Its kinsoku off is None. Breaking Latin words anywhere (word_wrap off) and the no-break-after-slash rule stay in wordcraft.
• designcraft: its breaker's set is Hard without the additions above and without ’ ” 〛 〟 ｠ 〜 ～ ゠ ‐ – ‼ ⁇ ⁈ ⁉ », ゕ ゖ, ㇰ–ㇿ and the half-width forms (can't start), « ‘ “ 〚 〝 ｟ ｢ (can't end). Its Soft set also lets ゝ ゞ ヽ ヾ 〻 start a line; here they stay forbidden, as in InDesign's Soft set. Document kinsoku tables (Kinsoku in doc/cjk.rs) stay in designcraft. korean_char_breaks: false is korean_words: true.
• deckcraft: Hard is its UAX #14 breaks minus those kinsoku forbids. None adds breaks between East Asian characters, so no mode returns plain UAX #14 for East Asian text.

Thai, Lao, Khmer and Burmese

UAX #14 gives these scripts class SA and leaves breaking inside them to a dictionary. Without the script's language feature, line_breaks treats a run of them as one word: it never breaks inside the run, only at its edges where UAX #14 allows a break (after a space, for example). A long Thai sentence with no spaces is one unbreakable piece, so the composer needs an emergency break for it. The features thai, lao, khmer and burmese split runs of that script into words with ICU4X's segmenter (icu_segmenter). Any one of them links the data for all four; the default build has no ICU data. The data is under the Unicode License v3 (see NOTICE).

The segmenter has two models, chosen by the lstm feature:

Model	Feature	Added to a wasm32 release build	Gzipped
Dictionaries (desktop default)	none	1.86 MB	0.89 MB
LSTM models (for web)	lstm	0.42 MB	0.33 MB

Measured on a minimal line_breaks example, against the same example with segment alone. The LSTM models are slower to run and split a few words differently, mostly compounds broken between syllables (Lao ລາດ|ຊະການ, Burmese မြန်|မာ), which are still valid line breaks.

Bidi

craft_text::bidi runs the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX #9, through unicode-bidi) on document text. It works on plain text and needs no fonts; shaping, glyph mirroring and caret placement stay in each application.

The pipeline is the one UAX #9 prescribes:

1. Paragraph::new(text, Direction::Rtl) resolves embedding levels once for the logical paragraph. Direction::Auto takes the direction from the first strong character. Paragraph::with_overrides also forces byte ranges to one direction (as LRO/RLO would), keeping offsets into the original text. A paragraph separator (\n, U+2029) in the text starts a new paragraph with its own level: paragraphs() lists each one's byte range and level, and level() is the first one's.
2. The application shapes and breaks lines in logical order.
3. Each line is reordered on its own: Paragraph::visual_runs(line) returns its runs of one level (byte range and level) left to right as displayed, with rule L1 applied (trailing whitespace, tabs and separators at the level of the paragraph they are in). Zero-width joiners and tag characters keep the level of the character before them, so no run splits a grapheme cluster. A run with an odd level displays its characters from end to start. Lines should not cross a paragraph separator.

Lines made of other units (clusters, glyphs, cells) use the free functions on level slices: line_levels(chars, levels, para_level) for rule L1 and visual_order(levels) for rule L2. mirror(c) returns the mirrored character for rule L4 (( for )), or None when the font has to supply a mirrored glyph.

Offsets are bytes into the paragraph's &str: Paragraph::levels() holds one level per byte, as unicode-bidi resolves them, and line ranges and runs are byte ranges. This matches the shaper cluster offsets and line ranges the apps already keep, so no char-index table is needed; char_levels() gives one level per character for code that works on char slices. Levels are plain u8 (even left to right, odd right to left), so unicode-bidi's types don't leak into callers.

Text with nothing right to left in a left-to-right or Auto paragraph skips the algorithm.

The module started from DeckCraft's text::bidi (levels, rule L1 and L2 over chars). The per-byte levels, the run-level reordering test cases and the hostile-input checks come from WordCraft's layout; overrides and mirroring follow DesignCraft's composer.

Line breaking

craft_text::linebreak breaks paragraphs into lines on Knuth and Plass's box/glue/penalty model. It knows nothing about fonts: the composer turns shaped glyphs into Items, calls a breaker and places the glyphs of each returned Line. Widths are in the caller's units, and width(k) gives the measure of line k, so first-line indents and shaped frames work. The core comes from vectorcraft's every-line composer; tiered justification, emergency breaks, the hyphenation zone, greedy and balanced lines come from designcraft's breaker.

• Items. Boxes, glue and penalties. Glue has a natural width and stretch and shrink in three tiers (word space, letter space, glyph scale) that are used in that order, as in InDesign's justification settings. Boxes may carry letter and glyph tiers too. Penalties have a cost and a flag (hyphens); ±10 000 forbids or forces the break. Item::fill() before the final Item::forced() leaves the last line unjustified. Optional fields, set on top of a constructor (Item { hang, ..Item::glue(w, st, sh) }): hang (optical margin), edge (an Edge of stretch and shrink gained at a line end or start, such as mojikumi), hyphenation, emergency.
• Breakers. knuth_plass runs one total-fit pass. break_paragraph runs passes at rising tolerances, then falls back to greedy; the returned Breaks says in method which one produced the lines. greedy_with resolves position-dependent widths (tabs). balanced evens the lines (meant for ragged text) and sets Breaks::balanced when it did. overlong finds words wider than the measure, where the composer adds Item::emergency() breaks.
• Params. Demerits, fitness classes, tolerance, hyphen limit, tier costs, uniform_from, and Rag for ragged text: rag stretch, short-last-line rating and hyphenation zone. uniform_from is the first line index from which width(k) stays the same. The default 0 is right for a constant measure; a caller with a first-line indent, drop cap or shaped frame sets it to the first line of the constant tail, or its breaks may not be the best ones. Negative or NaN demerits count as 0, and a NaN measure as 0.
• Lines. Each Line gives its item range, natural width, adjustment ratio, the fraction of each tier used and the width left over, so the composer can distribute the space.

use craft_text::linebreak::{Item, Params, Rag, break_paragraph};

let space = Item::glue(0.5, 0.0, 0.0);
let items = [Item::boxed(3.0), space, Item::boxed(3.0), space, Item::boxed(5.0), Item::fill(), Item::forced()];
let ragged = Params { rag: Some(Rag::default()), ..Params::default() };
let lines = break_paragraph(&items, &|_line| 8.0, &ragged, &[1.0, f64::INFINITY]).lines;

Adopting

• vectorcraft composer::compose: a box per glyph (hang = start_credit(i) for i > 0), glue per space (justified: stretch 0.5 and shrink 0.2 of its width; ragged: none), a penalty per Breakpoint (width = its hyphen, flagged when it has one, cost 50 justified or 25 ragged), and fill + forced at the end unless Justify All. Params: first_fitness: None, max_badness: 10_000, fitness_demerits 10 000 or 1 000, fitness bounds [-0.5, 0.5, 1.0] or [0.15, 0.4, 0.75], uniform_from as layout.rs computes it (the first index from which widths stay at the last width); ragged adds Rag { stretch: 0, width_fraction: 1/6, short_last: 1/3, short_last_unit: 1/3 }. Its two compose calls become two knuth_plass calls (tolerance 1, then 4 or ∞); None still falls back to the single-line composer.
• designcraft breaker::items builds linebreak::Items: hang, edge (mojikumi end/start elasticity), overflow (space_overflow), hyphenation (auto), emergency. Ragged text uses plain spaces and Rag { stretch: ragged_stretch, width_fraction: 0, hyphenation_zone: hyph_zone } instead of glue/penalty/glue triples. Spacing maps to Params { hyphen_limit, overrun: FIT_EPS, uniform_from, .. } with uniform_from the number of drop-cap lines, else 1 with a first-line indent, else 0. Kinsoku priority 1 or 2 maps to stretch_weight or shrink_weight 4; TIER_COST is tier_cost. knuth_plass becomes overlong + emergency items + break_paragraph(.., &[2.5, 12.0, f64::INFINITY]); greedy becomes greedy_with (tabs through advance; Item::no_break() where an emergency split is not allowed); balanced becomes balanced. Mapping lines back to glyphs (breaks_from_positions) stays in the app.
• effectcraft every_line: a box per segment between line-break opportunities, glue for its trailing whitespace, Rag { width_fraction: 1.0, .. }, uniform_from: 1 (the first line's measure differs when it is indented) and break_paragraph(.., &[f64::INFINITY]).

Differences from the seeds:

• vectorcraft: a Justify All last line is accepted at any ratio, like every line that ends at a forced break.
• designcraft: fill glue stretches infinitely instead of by 10 000 units. In ragged text a line ending at a forced break keeps its neighbour's fitness class. Greedy counts every flagged break toward the hyphen limit, and splits overlong words at the composer's emergency breaks instead of scanning for kinsoku. Past 4096 active breaks a pass fails and break_paragraph falls back to greedy, reported as Method::Greedy. Lines before uniform_from (first-line indent, drop cap) are kept apart by line number, where designcraft treats every line alike.
• effectcraft: lines are rated by Knuth's cubed ratio, not squared slack.

Licenses

The word list is public domain; the trained patterns are CC0-1.0. hypher's patterns come from hyph-utf8 under their own permissive licenses (LPPL, MPL, MIT, BSD-3); see the repository's NOTICE and ATTRIBUTION.md.

Checks

Some tests depend on language features, so run the suite with them on:

cargo test -p craft-text --all-features