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Re:Requirements for Japanese Text Layout by nxobject on Sunday February 25, 2024 @04:48AM (#39499346)
Everything you wanted to know about Japanese typography, and more.
Re:Requirements for Japanese Text Layout by tkgally on Sunday February 25, 2024 @07:25AM (#39500229)
Yes, indeed. I’ve had a professional interest in Japanese typography for many years, having worked on many Japanese dictionaries and other publications, but this document contains much that I didn’t know.
Re:Requirements for Japanese Text Layout by nxobject on Sunday February 25, 2024 @06:33PM (#39506081)
+1 to that – in the document's note sections there are a lot of typographical rules of style/aesthetic rules of thumb that are probably out of the scope of a W3C-style purely algorithmic specification, are very useful (e.g. indentations, conventional head/subhead/running section formatting, etc.)