CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Rules, Principles, and Techniques

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JIS X 4051:2004 Compliance

JIS X 4051:2004, Formatting rules for Japanese documents ( ni-

hongo bunshō no kumihan hōhō), is the standard that species the rules, principles, and

techniques that are necessary for typesetting Japanese documents.

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Several publishing-

quality applications, such as Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign,

Adobe PageMaker-J, FreeHand MX, QuarkXPress-J, and Canon EDICOLOR now pro-

vide full or partial JIS X 4051:2004 compliance.

e JIS X 4051 standard has grown considerably since its inception in 1993. e 1993

version has 28 pages, the 1995 version has 69 pages, and the 2004 version has 206 pages

with 6 pages of frontmatter. Needless to say, JIS X 4051 is now a fully matured standard,

as evidenced by its second revision, along with the high level of acceptance throughout

the industry.

One of the most important aspects of JIS X 4051:2004 to remember is that it is the rst

national standard that attempts to document the page- and line-layout rules for any type

of CJKV text. Many of the page- and line-layout rules for Japanese were either poorly or

inconsistently described in proprietary documentation, or else not documented at all.

While I wrote in the beginning of this chapter that consistency is more important than

a set of rules, you must realize that consistency arises from adhering ...