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Jellby · 09-05-2009, 05:19 AM

In this PDF (zhspacing for XeTeX) it seems grid typesetting is simply ignored (see the bottom of page 4). It says it's "proper typesetting" and it's written by a Chinese (or so it seems), but of course, I can't comment on the validity of this.

Then, according to this page:

There are no spaces between words in typeset Chinese, and all characters are as wide, including punctuation, brackets etc. A word consisting of several characters may be divided at any point, so a column in Chinese is naturally justified at both edges. It often happens that a punctuation character drops alone to the beginning of a line, which looks bad. This can be corrected by increasing the character spacing of the previous line, or by re-formulating the language.

09-05-2009, 05:19 AM	#57
Jellby frumious Bandersnatch Posts: 7,551 Karma: 19500001 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spaniard in Sweden Device: Cybook Orizon, Kobo Aura	In this PDF (zhspacing for XeTeX) it seems grid typesetting is simply ignored (see the bottom of page 4). It says it's "proper typesetting" and it's written by a Chinese (or so it seems), but of course, I can't comment on the validity of this. Then, according to this page: There are no spaces between words in typeset Chinese, and all characters are as wide, including punctuation, brackets etc. A word consisting of several characters may be divided at any point, so a column in Chinese is naturally justified at both edges. It often happens that a punctuation character drops alone to the beginning of a line, which looks bad. This can be corrected by increasing the character spacing of the previous line, or by re-formulating the language. Last edited by Jellby; 09-05-2009 at 05:22 AM.