Nat McCully
Nat McCully
Narrow or wide CJK fonts also pose an issue when adjusting the space in terms of "fullwidth" percentages -- normally this is assumed to be a percentage of the point...
The main problem with the workaround is the lack of control in how the widths of these spaces are adjusted. For Japanese spacing, the space glyph in whatever font is...
As I replied in the CSS thread, I am saying that Japanese layout behavior logic currently depends on knowledge of the actual glyphs designs in fonts and their layout intent,...
In response to @asmusf above, I have not thought of the space characters in Unicode as "requests" per se, but as functional to layout in a couple special ways: one,...
Generally my stance is that if you wish to override the layout engine's behavior, that doing so at the plain text layer is a bit strange -- the layout engine...
I agree with not adding space characters for this, yes.
The creation of the "ideographic" baseline is in my opinion a stop-gap measure, that lacks a full appreciation of how ideographic languages are typeset. When children learn to write them...
I would guess that the 級 and 歯 units from photo typesetting are mm-based? In Japan this is what they are, and we have similar confusing issues with Points being...