On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:15:39AM +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
Apart this, I see one problem with your idea of using characters from the
CJK Symbols and Punctuation block in classical studies: most of these
character have an inappropriate East Asian Width property.
East Asian Width is a
On Sun, 6 May 2001 19:22:38 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Chan wrote:
#On Sun, 6 May 2001, David J. Perry wrote:
#
# Word 2000 (under Win98) insists on using Arial Unicode MS whenever you
# insert a character in the CJK Punctuation range. There are some characters
# here that might be useful in non-CJK
David Starner wrote:
However, if I understand the property right, it's designed to
be used in
mono-/bi-width situations like terminal emulators, not in a
proportional
situation like Microsoft Word. The width of the character in
Word should
be dependent on the width of the glyph in the
On Sun, 6 May 2001, David J. Perry wrote:
In classical studies, characters with the shape of U+3008/09, 300A-300F,
3016/17, and 301A/1B are sometimes used to mark various kinds of editorial
uncertainty or conjecture in a text. The first and last pairs in my list
are the most common by far
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
East Asian Width is a property that tells whether or not each Unicode
character should have the same typographical width as a CJK ideograph. The
property may be yes, no, or a few different kinds of maybe.
Whoa, wait... Whether or not you care at all about the East
At 09:54 AM 5/7/01 -0700, Rick McGowan wrote:
Now, Word2000 or some other product, or some specific set of fonts may not
be what a classicist wants, but that limitation is not because the width
of many characters are somehow CONSTRAINED by the East Asian Width
property.
While that is true, any
Word 2000 (under Win98) insists on using Arial Unicode MS whenever you
insert a character in the CJK Punctuation range. There are some characters
here that might be useful in non-CJK situations, such as the double
brackets. I have made a font with these characters but Word will not let me
use
From: David J. Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've tried several methods of inputting the
characters but the result is always the same.
Does anybody know how to handle this?
I believe Word is going with the font choices you will find in the style
dialog for the given styles for Asian languages.
On Sun, 6 May 2001, David J. Perry wrote:
Word 2000 (under Win98) insists on using Arial Unicode MS whenever you
insert a character in the CJK Punctuation range. There are some characters
here that might be useful in non-CJK situations, such as the double
brackets. I have made a font with
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