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Originally Posted by Jellby
Until someone more knowledgeable in Chinese typesetting comes about, we can only speculate.
To add to the speculation, you could have a look at this PDF from the ConTeXt team, dealing with Chinese typesetting. The examples shown are not typeset in a grid. |
Interesting. Thanks for that!
There is some strangeness with punctuation, where certain punctuation juxtaposed only takes up a single character width instead of two. Also, line-final commas (maybe other punctuation too) can be (or are supposed to be?) half-width only.
Factors that, thinking about it, would make maintaining the grid difficult to impossible. So perhaps the presence of grids is merely indicative of poor quality/simplistic Chinese type-setting software?
- Ahi