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, an
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 E
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 fa
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 i
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
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 Widt
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 these characters b
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 (I know 3008/09 has another version somewhere in
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 wi
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 langua
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