On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 01:19:47PM -0700, rigel wrote: > Thanks, I've d/l the book and had a peek. Not exactly what i had in mind. > I'm looking for books discussing chinese typographical principles in general. > Not necessarily have to be related with computers. I'd like to know what > are the general rules and conventions. Since now i'm living in the wrong side > of pacific ocean, it's pretty hard to find a chinese book, let alone such > specialized one.
Yes, you are right: in traditional Chinese printing/typesetting, there is _no_ such thing as italic fonts AFAIK. At least, you won't find any italic Chinese fonts in any ancient Chinese books. ;-) To emphasize text, perhaps a bold font could be used, or a different font (song -> hei, song -> kai, etc.), or a dot could be added below (or beside) each character in an emphasized phrase, or just quoted with single or double quotes, etc. I guess. :-) But yeah, since it is so easy to do italics nowadays, even on Chinese glyphs, it is not too uncommon to see slanted Chinese fonts on some modern publications. Not very professional looking, mind you, and slanted Chinese characters only work for horizontal writing, not vertical writing. :-) Just my 2 cents. I am no professional Chinese typesetter. :-) Cheers, Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling Civil and Environmental Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta, Canada Debian GNU/Linux Chinese Project -- http://www.debian.org/intl/zh/ Come visit Our Lady of Victory Camp -- http://www.olvc.ab.ca/ -- | This message was re-posted from [email protected] | and converted from gb2312 to big5 by an automatic gateway.
