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Originally Posted by radius
People don't usually expect text to be laid out in a grid. Think how hard that would be to read in real life. You can vary inter-word spacing just like for Latin-based languages.
I'm not sure where you live, but the easiest thing to do is go to your local Chinatown and take a look at a Chinese language newspaper...
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Hmmm... that's what I did. And it seemed to me all articles were, in fact, laid out as a grid. I guess I'll take a closer look...
But even on news.cn, articles seem to adhere to the grid--excepting the fact that paragraphs' first-line-indentation misaligns the first line just slightly. Otherwise, all subsequent lines in a paragraph have their characters perfectly aligned under the corresponding character in the line above and/or below.
See attached.
- Ahi