- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:51:42 -0400
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 15:50 -0700, fantasai wrote: > On 06/26/2013 03:33 PM, fantasai wrote: > > On 06/26/2013 01:30 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > >> > >> The default needs to be that letter spacing is not used for > >> justification of Latin scripts. I think the same is true for Devanagari > >> and Thai. Enabling letter spacing should not affect justification either > >> (although it should disable ligatures such as "ffi" and "fl"). > > > > I'm pretty sure Thai adjusts inter-cluster spacing for justification. > > Spaces are uncommon enough that lines without them are reasonably common. > > See for example https://www.sasin.edu/images/gallery/hrm-course-16jan13.jpg > > Here's a better example: > http://www.sasin.edu/images/gallery/cimb01.jpg > Contrast the spacing on the last line of the first column with the line previous. Thanks! OK, so word spacing was adjusted first and then letter spacing; however, English-language newspapers do the same, even though it's not considered acceptable in book publishing. Thai might be the same, I can't tell. At any rate it needs to be controllable. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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