From: mf <massifr@fastwebnet.it>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: full-width Chinese comma (U+FF0C) and ordinary comma (U+002C) in Chinese texts
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:10:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d734e8c-bbdc-4c1f-8cfd-aa3b276cb1ce@fastwebnet.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7e553eea-e2a9-1fe8-42c3-8207fe2355ff@gmail.com>
Il 14/11/24 17:52, Wolfgang Schuster ha scritto:
> mf schrieb am 14.11.2024 um 17:45:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm typesetting a bibliography with some Chinese books that have both
>> the English translation and the original title in Chinese ideograms.
>>
>> The Chinese titles contain both full-width commas (U+FF0C) and
>> ordinary commas (U+002C), followed by spaces.
>>
>> Full-width comma has a wide glyph that incorporates some space on the
>> right side; I read on Wikipedia it's a mistake putting a space after it.
>>
>> THE PROBLEM
>> ConTeXt does not break a line after a full-width comma (even inside a
>> "{\cn ... }" group), while it does with an ordinary comma, followed by
>> a space.
>> When there are only full-width commas, sometimes I'll get overfull
>> boxes, because ConTeXt finds no feasible breakpoints.
>>
>> I'm tempted to replace all the full-width commas with ordinary commas
>> followed by a space. Is it possible, or is it a mistake?
>>
>> Or, how do I tell ConTeXt that breaks can occur after full-width commas?
>
> Use \setscript[hanzi] to enable linebreaking for chinese.
>
> Wolfgang
Thank you, Wolfgang!
It works!
Since I'm typesetting mixed-languages text (mainly Italian, with some
English, French and German), should I limit the \setscript[hanzi] to the
Chinese spans of text, or can I set it for the whole bibliography
containing Chinese titles? It looks like the latter is true (and
simpler, of course).
Massi
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