Hello,
Andreas Delmelle-2 wrote: > > > On 11 Mar 2009, at 11:46, Maria2009 wrote: > Just FYI: > >> <snip /> >> >> (3) I have not yet come across cases where colons etc. start a new >> line. >> This is a problem that occurs frequently with text engines that are >> not used >> to East Asian texts. If this problem turns up, it needs to be solved. > > Don't worry. This should normally never present itself. This is part > of the Unicode Annex#14 tailorable line-breaking rules that FOP > implements. (see: > http://unicode.org/reports/tr14/#TailorableBreakingRules) > > Technically: a colon (U+003A) has line-breaking class IS (numeric > separator), and UAX#14 does not permit breaks before that class by > default (LB13). > > OTOH, if I understand correctly, basic UAX#14 does not cover all > Japanese line-breaking rules, so it may be that a native reader will > find the layout to be suboptimal, or will at least notice some > oddities in this area... > Thanks for the link. I am learning by doing. At the moment I cannot really make sense of the document, but I am getting closer... Anyway, good to know that the problem will not come up! As far as small oddities are concerned, except for the real DTP software packages, there is yet nothing really ideal. For the time being, XML-documents together with print via FOP is a very good solution for academic texts and data, the best I know. > > This all got me thinking: in the "normal" case, where letter-spacing > has its initial value, it should normally come from the font. I'll > have to check whether this means that either the font does not contain > this info, or maybe it's there but FOP does not find it in the place > it expects... > > It is not that it looks bad the default way. Some additional space between the characters make them more readable. I just checked with the same font in a Mac text editor, and the result also looks a bit compressed -- though not really "wrong". It seems to be a matter of some fonts rather than FOP. And it is great that one can easily adjust this with letter spacing. Best, Maria -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Making-East-Asian-text-look-good-tp22452061p22468160.html Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
