From: Tobias Burnus <burnus@net-b.de>
Subject: Re: Chinese
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:30:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4399A2F8.8040900@net-b.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439997FB.3000600@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Hi,
Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Is there less kerning among CJK fonts? I would expect so.
Classically any Chinese character has exactly the same width, which is
the same as the height (square). Nowadays some are taller than wide. I'm
quite certain that there is hardly any Chinese font with kerning as this
would break the grid.
> Thinking aloud, you'd probably want to include some language-switching
> commands, to mediate between the calling of unicode fonts for un-named
> CJK glyphs (just raw conversion from Unicode to font switch + glyph
> number) to named roman (and other alphabetic) glyphs (conversion from
> UTF-8 to named glyphs to font+glyph, which retains kerning where it can).
Well, I think one uses most of the time different fonts for Chinese and
non-CJK texts as many Chinese fonts don't include that many roman
letters (at least the ones quoted at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chinese miss the ß and ä).
Tobias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-09 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-05 7:36 strange behavior of startbackground Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 7:43 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 9:07 ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-05 12:46 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 14:33 ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-06 2:04 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-06 2:29 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-08 12:36 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-12-08 15:35 ` Chinese (was:Re: strange behavior of startbackground) Tobias Burnus
2005-12-08 20:26 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-08 22:11 ` Chinese Patrick Gundlach
2005-12-09 2:19 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 10:53 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-09 13:46 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 14:03 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-09 14:19 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 14:24 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 15:01 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-09 15:24 ` Chinese Richard Gabriel
2005-12-12 15:53 ` Chinese Hans Hagen
2005-12-12 21:15 ` Chinese Tobias Burnus
2005-12-14 22:19 ` Chinese Hans Hagen
2005-12-13 9:14 ` Chinese Richard Gabriel
2005-12-13 9:55 ` Chinese Hans Hagen
2005-12-13 10:31 ` Chinese Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-09 14:43 ` Chinese Adam Lindsay
2005-12-09 15:30 ` Tobias Burnus [this message]
2005-12-12 12:29 ` Chinese Hans Hagen
2005-12-06 2:29 ` strange behavior of startbackground Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 7:48 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 7:52 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 8:50 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-12-05 9:05 ` Hans Hagen
2005-12-05 12:37 ` Xiao Jianfeng
2005-12-05 14:35 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] <20051212173143.94765127FA@ronja.ntg.nl>
2005-12-13 8:07 ` Chinese Duncan Hothersall
[not found] <20051209110003.CF289127DF@ronja.ntg.nl>
2005-12-09 11:06 ` Chinese Duncan Hothersall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-18 0:42 chinese Jens-Uwe Morawski
2002-05-19 22:29 ` chinese Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <5.1.0.14.1.20020521085937.0405c110@server-1>
[not found] ` <001801c20415$4fe46e30$04c7fea9@wanglei>
2002-05-25 20:25 ` chinese Hans Hagen
2002-05-26 18:42 ` chinese Mr. Lei Wang
2002-05-26 19:28 ` chinese Hans Hagen
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