Question/Request about autobreak rule

[miguelfs]

Hi, Nikolaj.

Thanks for creating and maintaining this application.

My wife works with professional subtitling for years, so this application had positive impact in her career, so we are both thankful.

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About autobreak feature: Is there a way to use, at the same time, the current available custom regex autobreak rules while ALSO keeping some sort of width control at the broken lines?

To give a practical example, consider the sentence: "I am what I am supposed to do every day". By adding a single autobreak regex \b(am)\b, the auto break would pick the first match. The output would be:

I am
what I am supposed to do every day

Ticking those two options ( use do-not-break-after list and Break by pixel width ) makes only the first one to prevail.

What we are looking for is a way that:

• autobreak internally makes all possible break combinations for the sentence (in our example, two options)
• after generating the options, the 2-line sentence with the less width difference between them is the ONE to be automatically picked, so the output would be:

I am what I am
supposed to do everyday

Is it currently possible? if not, is it worth opening a PR with this feature? Or a custom plugin would be better?

Thanks in advance.