CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Horizontal and Vertical Layout

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Square and nonsquare design spacesTable 7-5.

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The Character Grid

An essential element in CJKV typography is the ability for the user to establish a character-

based grid, if desired. Some applications, such as Adobe InDesign, Canon EDICOLOR,

and QuarkXPress, allow the user to establish a character grid, and also allow the user to

use “character” as a unit of measurement for determining line lengths and so on.

Because most CJKV characters, such as zhuyin, kana, hangul, and especially ideographs,

are typically set in a uniform design space, usually square, it is somewhat natural to want

to set the glyphs in a character-based grid. However, the inclusion of some punctuation or

Latin glyphs can cause this grid to break down and cease to be rigid.

Table 7-6 provides an example of a character-based grid. Note how punctuation is still

allowed to dangle, such as at the end of the fourth line. Details about dangling punctua-

tion can be found later in this chapter in the section entitled “Line Breaking and Word

Wrapping.”

Morisawa’s Fuzzy  (fajī kanzen hakogumi, meaning “fuzzy perfect-box layout”)

soware, an Adobe Illustrator plug-in, performs various calculations that enable grid-like

behavior for Adobe Illustrator, but doesn’t actually set up a grid as shown in Table 7-6.

Its purpose was to do the necessary calculations ...