What is "floating punctuation"?

warface9991 · 04-20-2019, 11:44 AM

Hi
I searched on the Internet what "floating punctuation" means but found absolutely nothing and when I enable it, I cannot see any changes through the text except for the number of pages. Should I enable or disable it for the best reading experience? Also, what's the default setting of it? Checked or unchecked?

pdurrant · 04-20-2019, 12:26 PM

I've never heard of "floating punctuation", but I wonder whether it might mean "hanging punctuation".

You can look up the details, but essentially hanging punctuation puts punctuation marks at the beginning and ends of lines of text in the margins, so that the characters themselves look aligned at the edges.

NiLuJe · 04-20-2019, 12:29 PM

Yep. That's apparently a typographic convention used in some languages, mainly CJK (which might explain the shaky English translation

).

It's currently subtly buggy/annoying in a number of weird corner-cases for non-CJK scripts, so it's disabled by default.

Frenzie · 04-20-2019, 01:32 PM

Yes, it's hanging punctuation. I'm not sure where that "floating" came from. I can only assume Russian or Chinese. There are some cool examples in http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb25-1/thanh.pdf I think the half-hanging type looks better than full hanging, at least for hyphens and such.

warface9991 · 04-20-2019, 04:48 PM

Thank you all for your answers

Frenzie · 04-21-2019, 04:45 AM

The Illustrator help also has some info about it: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/...ml#use_kinsoku

Edit: Btw, it'll be changed in today's nightly, see https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/4949

warface9991 · 04-21-2019, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frenzie

The Illustrator help also has some info about it: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/...ml#use_kinsoku

Edit: Btw, it'll be changed in today's nightly, see https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/4949

I appreciate your efforts thanks

04-20-2019, 11:44 AM	#1
warface9991 Connoisseur Posts: 58 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2019 Device: Kobo GLO HD	What is "floating punctuation"? Hi I searched on the Internet what "floating punctuation" means but found absolutely nothing and when I enable it, I cannot see any changes through the text except for the number of pages. Should I enable or disable it for the best reading experience? Also, what's the default setting of it? Checked or unchecked? Last edited by warface9991; 04-20-2019 at 12:05 PM.

04-21-2019, 04:45 AM	#6
Frenzie Wizard Posts: 1,619 Karma: 724945 Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Antwerp Device: Kobo Aura H2O	The Illustrator help also has some info about it: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/...ml#use_kinsoku Edit: Btw, it'll be changed in today's nightly, see https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/4949 Last edited by Frenzie; 04-21-2019 at 05:41 AM.

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04-20-2019, 12:26 PM	#2
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,507 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	I've never heard of "floating punctuation", but I wonder whether it might mean "hanging punctuation". You can look up the details, but essentially hanging punctuation puts punctuation marks at the beginning and ends of lines of text in the margins, so that the characters themselves look aligned at the edges.

04-20-2019, 12:29 PM	#3
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,477 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	Yep. That's apparently a typographic convention used in some languages, mainly CJK (which might explain the shaky English translation ). It's currently subtly buggy/annoying in a number of weird corner-cases for non-CJK scripts, so it's disabled by default.

04-20-2019, 01:32 PM	#4
Frenzie Wizard Posts: 1,619 Karma: 724945 Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Antwerp Device: Kobo Aura H2O	Yes, it's hanging punctuation. I'm not sure where that "floating" came from. I can only assume Russian or Chinese. There are some cool examples in http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb25-1/thanh.pdf I think the half-hanging type looks better than full hanging, at least for hyphens and such.

04-20-2019, 04:48 PM	#5
warface9991 Connoisseur Posts: 58 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2019 Device: Kobo GLO HD	Thank you all for your answers

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