Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
> I don't think it's fixed 27.5° in handwritten script, it varies quite
> considerably, partly depending on how much text has to fit in the line
> in calligraphy. In ordinary handwriting, the angle easily reaches 45°
> or more.
I couldn't find any reference in books abou
>> BTW, I heard strange things about baselines, such as that the baseline for
>> Indic fonts should be near the top of letters, while for good Arabic
>> typography it should be oblique. Can someone confirm these notions?
VI> The baseline of Arabic (in general meaning) typographical fonts
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Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> BTW, I heard strange things about baselines, such as that the baseline for
> Indic fonts should be near the top of letters, while for good Arabic
> typography it should be oblique. Can someone confirm these notions?
The baseline of Arabic (in general meaning) typograp
At 06:17 4/16/2002, Christopher J Fynn wrote:
>One thing an Indic script font gains from having support for the 'base'
>table is that when you have mixed point sizes of text on a single line, the
>two sizes of type align at the headline - rather than the smaller size type
>being lower in height (
At 05:10 4/15/2002, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
>I've run into a problem where I need to know what characters don't
>have a specified baseline in a font. It seems that when Latin and Han
>character appear in the same font the font has a baseline, but it only
>applies to the Latin characters. The H
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:18:20PM +0200, Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> Hmmm. I think I can rephrase my question, then: how do I know what
> characters are fullwidth characters? Can I assume that all hanzi,
> kana, yi, fullwidth latin, and hangul characters are fullwidth? Are
> there any others?
S
Lars Marius Garshol scripsit:
> Hmmm. I think I can rephrase my question, then: how do I know what
> characters are fullwidth characters? Can I assume that all hanzi,
> kana, yi, fullwidth latin, and hangul characters are fullwidth? Are
> there any others?
O-kay, now we can help you! See ht
* John Cowan
|
| It is more sensible to think of fullwidth characters (Han
| ideographs, kana, Yi syllables, fullwidth Latin, hangul) as being
| laid out on a grid rather than sitting on a baseline. With the grid
| layout, each character is centered in its grid square.
Hmmm. I think I can reph
Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> I've run into a problem where I need to know what characters don't
> have a specified baseline in a font. It seems that when Latin and Han
> character appear in the same font the font has a baseline, but it only
> applies to the Latin characters. The Han characters all
I've run into a problem where I need to know what characters don't
have a specified baseline in a font. It seems that when Latin and Han
character appear in the same font the font has a baseline, but it only
applies to the Latin characters. The Han characters all have a
baseline through their mid
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