Re: Doublewidth EM DASH for unhappy English people

[Stefan Baums]

On Wednesday, 11 April 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:

> AFAIK, CJK world is the only region which has used distinction of
> single and double width.  Thus, width is a compatibility problem
> for CJK people.  Since this concept is new for other people, width
> is mere a design problem for non-CJK people.

What about Indian scripts?  In Devanagari typesetting, one akshara
(consonant [+ vowel [+ anusvara / visarga]] cluster) takes up roughly
as much horizontal space as two latin-script letters, is certainly
square in shape, and the space is needed for all the details of the
akshara.  A Devanagari font that is supposed to be used with a 9x18
latin one should probably be 18x18.

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Stefan Baums
Asien-Instituttet
Københavns Universitet
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