The term immediately suggests "wordbreak" and "linebreak" as accompanying flow-break terms. A wordbreak would break a word at the end of a syllable, a linebreak would break a line at the end of a word. There would be three varieties of the latter: initial, internal and terminal. Only poetry would have linebreaks--indeed, it must have a linebreak (in my poetics). Prose lines do not break, they end a margins. (Almost all the time, at any rate.)

Okay, I'm no doubt the only one clarificated by this, but I'm nevertheless Very Pleased.

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