G4: No Break keeps marked characters on one line

Squashed from #3398 onto main.

docs/type-parity.md

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 # Type parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-17 · **Change:** minor (a click on the out port threads the text into a closed path, a new frame at the click or a dragged rectangle, #2572 in part; scores unchanged; native family labels fall back to localized legacy names when typographic names are English-only, #2208; scores unchanged; Cmd+Shift+C aligns centre off the Mac, #1940; tab leaders are drawn in the tab's gap, #1877; type in symbols, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks gets its layout bounds back on opening a native file, #1738; score unchanged; Escape while typing ends the edit, #1686; Select › Same on type, #1737; `justify` when creating point type, #1748; scores unchanged; OpenType stylistic sets, alternates, figure styles, superscript and subscript as character features, #1607; a wide word in non-rectangular area type moves down, #1615; scores unchanged; Character Styles New/Redefine capture the first selected character at run boundaries and end prior typing before capture; boundary and typing-history input tests and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Linux font folders from fontconfig, #1529; commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame, #1471; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; Fit Headline in a frame one line tall, #1444; frames and paths beyond a billion points hold no text, #1451; scores unchanged; missing glyphs are looked for again after a font rescan, #1376; scores unchanged; Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; Middle Eastern digit types: Character panel menu › Digits, `{digits}`; the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966; Cmd+Shift+C aligns centre off the Mac, a double-click on area type's bottom handle turns on Auto Size, #1940; MCP `add_text` exposes the existing `vertical` option for point, area and path type; horizontal remains the default; scores and hours unchanged; Vertical fullwidth question and exclamation marks keep their nominal glyph upright when the font has no vertical alternate; scores and hours unchanged. tab leaders are drawn in the tab's gap, #1877; type in symbols, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks gets its layout bounds back on opening a native file, #1738; score unchanged; Escape while typing ends the edit, #1686; Select › Same on type, #1737; `justify` when creating point type, #1748; scores unchanged; OpenType stylistic sets, alternates, figure styles, superscript and subscript as character features, #1607; a wide word in non-rectangular area type moves down, #1615; scores unchanged; Character Styles New/Redefine capture the first selected character at run boundaries and end prior typing before capture; boundary and typing-history input tests and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Linux font folders from fontconfig, #1529; commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame, #1471; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; Fit Headline in a frame one line tall, #1444; frames and paths beyond a billion points hold no text, #1451; scores unchanged; missing glyphs are looked for again after a font rescan, #1376; scores unchanged; Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; Middle Eastern digit types: Character panel menu › Digits, `{digits}`; the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-21 · **Change:** minor (No Break keeps marked characters on one line; scores unchanged; a click on the out port threads the text into a closed path, a new frame at the click or a dragged rectangle, #2572 in part; scores unchanged; native family labels fall back to localized legacy names when typographic names are English-only, #2208; scores unchanged; Cmd+Shift+C aligns centre off the Mac, #1940; tab leaders are drawn in the tab's gap, #1877; type in symbols, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks gets its layout bounds back on opening a native file, #1738; score unchanged; Escape while typing ends the edit, #1686; Select › Same on type, #1737; `justify` when creating point type, #1748; scores unchanged; OpenType stylistic sets, alternates, figure styles, superscript and subscript as character features, #1607; a wide word in non-rectangular area type moves down, #1615; scores unchanged; Character Styles New/Redefine capture the first selected character at run boundaries and end prior typing before capture; boundary and typing-history input tests and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Linux font folders from fontconfig, #1529; commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame, #1471; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; Fit Headline in a frame one line tall, #1444; frames and paths beyond a billion points hold no text, #1451; scores unchanged; missing glyphs are looked for again after a font rescan, #1376; scores unchanged; Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; Middle Eastern digit types: Character panel menu › Digits, `{digits}`; the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966; Cmd+Shift+C aligns centre off the Mac, a double-click on area type's bottom handle turns on Auto Size, #1940; MCP `add_text` exposes the existing `vertical` option for point, area and path type; horizontal remains the default; scores and hours unchanged; Vertical fullwidth question and exclamation marks keep their nominal glyph upright when the font has no vertical alternate; scores and hours unchanged. tab leaders are drawn in the tab's gap, #1877; type in symbols, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks gets its layout bounds back on opening a native file, #1738; score unchanged; Escape while typing ends the edit, #1686; Select › Same on type, #1737; `justify` when creating point type, #1748; scores unchanged; OpenType stylistic sets, alternates, figure styles, superscript and subscript as character features, #1607; a wide word in non-rectangular area type moves down, #1615; scores unchanged; Character Styles New/Redefine capture the first selected character at run boundaries and end prior typing before capture; boundary and typing-history input tests and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Linux font folders from fontconfig, #1529; commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame, #1471; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; Fit Headline in a frame one line tall, #1444; frames and paths beyond a billion points hold no text, #1451; scores unchanged; missing glyphs are looked for again after a font rescan, #1376; scores unchanged; Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; Middle Eastern digit types: Character panel menu › Digits, `{digits}`; the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in
 [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the
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 | CJK: input methods (marked text, candidate window) | done | |
 | CJK: kinsoku (Hard, Soft, None), Line-end Punctuation Half Width, tate-chu-yoko (auto) | done / partial | custom kinsoku sets, the Mojikumi Settings dialog and the other mojikumi sets missing |
 | CJK: Proportional Metrics (`palt` in horizontal type, `vpal` in vertical type) | done | #966 |
+| No Break | done | Character panel menu (`text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {noBreak}`): the marked characters stay on one line, including across a space; a run that does not fit after earlier text moves together, and a run longer than the line stays together. Evidence: `layout::wrapping_tests::no_break_keeps_marked_characters_on_one_line`, `tests::no_break_keeps_marked_words_on_one_line`, `typecmd::no_break_is_a_character_attribute_saved_only_when_on` |
 | CJK: ruby, manual tate-chu-yoko | missing | #633 |
 | Inline symbols in text | beyond Illustrator | not scored |
 | Align Stroke (inside, outside) on live type's character stroke | beyond Illustrator | not scored; `stroke.set {align}` and `text.setRangeStyle {strokeOptions: {align}}`; saved natively, drawn around the glyphs on the canvas and in PDF, EPS and SVG (live text, stroke on the glyph outlines); visual bounds grow with it (#2294) |
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 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-21 | minor | No Break: marked characters stay on one line; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | Roman Hanging Punctuation (#2756): per-paragraph hanging of Latin punctuation outside the margin; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | Justification… (#2755): word and letter spacing, glyph scaling, Auto Leading and Single Word Justification per paragraph; the default word spacing range is 80/100/133%, so justified lines break differently than with the old fixed 80–150%; scores unchanged |
 | 2026-10-17 | minor | A click on area type's red out port loads the Selection tool with the overflow text; the next click threads it into a closed path or a new frame of the same shape there, a drag into a new rectangle (`text.thread.add`, #2572 in part). The out port moved up the frame's right side, clear of the corner handle. Scores and hours unchanged. |