Hi,
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Is there less kerning among CJK fonts? I would expect so.
Classically any Chinese character has exactly the same width, which is
the same as the height (square). Nowadays some are taller than wide. I'm
quite certain that there is hardly any Chinese font with kerning as this
would break the grid.
Thinking aloud, you'd probably want to include some language-switching
commands, to mediate between the calling of unicode fonts for un-named
CJK glyphs (just raw conversion from Unicode to font switch + glyph
number) to named roman (and other alphabetic) glyphs (conversion from
UTF-8 to named glyphs to font+glyph, which retains kerning where it can).
Well, I think one uses most of the time different fonts for Chinese and
non-CJK texts as many Chinese fonts don't include that many roman
letters (at least the ones quoted at
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chinese miss the ß and ä).
Tobias
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