Hello, In trying to determine how best to create a size for a box of vertical text in the vertical dimension, I have the following two options, both of which seem to be used in Japan:
1. Unequally-spaced lettering, but aligned at the top and the bottom of the box, except for vertical indents at the start of a paragraph and the "sticking out" at the bottom of punctuation. This means I think that characters are either not all square, or that the glue is stretched and/or shrunk, or a combination of the two. For square characters, rows should I suspect appear aligned along the horizontal if no punctuation or indentation is used. This style is more easily readable for book-style text. 2. Grid-type layout where each character is positioned in its own box of equal size to all others, and characters are aligned in the horizontal dimension as well as the vertical one. This style is very useful for a number of things; for example, for addresses on envelopes, titles on book covers, and the like. LaTeX and CJK support by default the first option. I am still trying to find out how best to determine the calculation of required (or rather, suggested?) vertical space for LaTeX to use, and have initially played around with em, ex and \baselineskip as possible parameters. I don't know yet how I should accommodate glue in such a "suggestion" (chapter 10,11,12, 24 of the TeX book). In particular, looking at the CJK .sty and .chr code, and from studying the TeX book, I don't understand if there is a "best" metric for suggesting the vertical dimensions of such a box: \baselineskip is the exact distance needed and \lineskip is the interline glue added if the boxes become closer than \lineskiplimit to one another. In the vertical style I understand from the code that \baselineskip is increased by a factor of 1.3, and \CJKsymbol does the rotation and box construction per character. The characters I think do not take the same amount of space (or at least the code makes no assumptions about this). So I wonder, from those on the list more familiar with vertical typesetting, what meaning can be attributed to any "suggestion" of a vertical box height, and is there any point in trying to enforce it? I am looking at the documentation, code, and output of pTeX/pLaTeX to compare what I want to achieve with the CJK package. Best regards, Gernot _______________________________________________ Cjk maillist - [email protected] https://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/cjk
