RE: [jlreq] Quarter Millimeter

Q is still the most commonly used units in Japanese typography. InDesign supports Q, and all the people I know uses Q in InDesign. I agree that it's a nice addition to JLREQ.

I'm not sure how much it's needed for the CSS Values & Units though, as, unlike pt, it's easy to transform to millimeters without errors and everyone who knows Q knows it.


Regards,
Koji

-----Original Message-----
From: "Martin J. Dürst" [mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:05 PM
To: Christoph Päper
Cc: public-i18n-cjk@w3.org
Subject: Re: [jlreq] Quarter Millimeter

On 2011/11/30 18:42, Christoph Päper wrote:
> I’ve read several times that in Japanese typography it is or, at least, was quite common to employ a unit of 0.25 mm, i.e. a quarter millimeter, called ‘q’, (transcribed) キュ or (retranscribed) ‘kyu’, where Western typesetters would use one of the many ‘point’ units. It isn’t mentioned in JLREQ, however.
>
> Should it be included here and therefore possibly get considered for CSS Values and Units?
>
> Disclaimer: I unsuccessfully proposed its inclusion in CSS several years ago.

This is just a wild guess, but it may be that this unit is no longer very much in use because PostScript and DTP technology,... were all based on points. If that's the case, it may be good to add a note somewhere to that effect, so that people familiar with history can check it.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 15:43:25 UTC