December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
Content preview from CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 7: Typography
Kerning ideographsTable 7-38.
Full-width Proportional Kerned
As you can see, the introduction of alternate metrics, along with proper kerning, can
make a world of dierence in the overall appearance and quality of CJKV documents.
Morisawa & Company
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developed an Adobe Illustrator plug-in called Fuzzy
(fajī kāningu, meaning “Fuzzy Kerning”) that provided the ability to kern Japanese text.
ey have also developed a QuarkXPress XTension (plug-in) called Dr. (“Dr.
Kerning”). Because of the capabilities of OpenType fonts, which more easily allow kern-
ing information to be included through the use of the ‘kern’ (Kerning) and ‘vkrn’ (Vertical
Kerning) GPOS features, these plug-ins are no longer being developed. For users who are
satised with a pseudo-kerned look, Adobe InDesign includes the ability to adjust glyph
side bearings by a specied percentage.
Line-Length Issues
Once you begin applying alternate metrics or adjusting other spacing aspects of CJKV
text, you are then le with the problem of how to calculate line length to perform com-
mon typographic tasks, such as right-justication. When dealing with text that is set on a
rigid grid, such as Chinese, calculating line length becomes a bit more trivial.
e inclusion of Latin text—even one character—is the typical culprit for causing line-
length calculation problems in CJKV text. ...
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