- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 16:37:55 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 03/09/2016 04:28 PM, fantasai wrote: > On 03/09/2016 01:23 PM, Dave Cramer wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com <mailto:kojiishi@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> If I were to think sizing by the number of ideographic characters, the use of "em" is natural to me. >> >> >> Are there many CJK fonts where the advance measure of U+6C34 is not 1em? >> I'm looking at the metrics of this character in Adobe Myungjo, Adobe >> Kaiti, Weibi TC, Kozuka Gothic Pro... and it's all 1em. > > Non-square CJK fonts are quite rare in general usage... they're more likely > to be found in newspaper typesetting, where the advance width is compressed > in order to fit more characters in less space. But they do exist. Sorry, advance measure. (It is the height that is compressed in vertical writing.) ~fantasai
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