Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text-4] Add support for content-detection, Bunsetsu- (the smallest unit of words that sounds natural) or phrases-based line breaking (#6730)

There is also a need for grammar-based line breaking in English - see for example the BBC Subtitle Guidelines' section on [breaking at natural points](https://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/forproducts/guides/subtitles#Break-at-natural-points), which requires manual line breaks to be inserted based on grammatical rules. This has been a subtitle/caption authoring practice in the UK for decades.

If there were a good way to move this to the rendering domain that would have accessibility benefits, for example by avoiding the need for authors to insert explicit line breaks, so that the text is easy to read regardless of how many lines it flows onto. This is _not_ the same thing as `text-wrap: balance;` which takes no notice of grammar and just makes the lines a similar length.

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