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Originally Posted by ahi
Which is aesthetically more preferable, radius? Keeping the grid, but occasionally leaving a blank space at the right end of the line, or losing the grid in favour of being able to keep full justification (variable width of spaces between characters)?
- Ahi
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Don't want to unnecessarily revive this topic, but I spent the better part of this afternoon hunting through the bookstore to find interesting publishers that use more advanced layouts and what strikes me as superior typesetting practices.
There were of course several decent hardbacks with haphazard punctuation, avoiding that whole 避頭尾點 principle I linked about earlier...but most all the well-made books I found of recent vintage (after 1995 especially) used fully-justified paragraphs. Seems that's the way to go with the good publishers. Ming/Song is almost always the main typeface, with FangSong or Kai for poems, letters, and marginalia, and quotes. Sometimes they'll use a Hei/Gothic for TOC and section/chapter headings.
It's a bit irritating though, since I can't find any decent Ming/Song fonts that display well on e-ink. Contrast and resolution are too low to display well at all. I've only had good luck with Hei faces pretty much...and that seems to be about the equivalent of typesetting an English novel in Arial.
