Tobias Burnus wrote:
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).
if there is a utf-8 mapping for chinese, then th eother chars can come
from the main text font
Hans
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