Re: Question on Text Justification of Korean

Broken because treating Hangul and hanja differently in justification is
not acceptable.

Jungshik
2014. 10. 22. 오전 10:14에 "fantasai" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>님이 작성:

> Hello,
> The CSSWG is working on default rules for text justification, for
> when there is no information on the document language. The rules
> will not be ideal for any one language, but should nonetheless
> produce acceptable results.
>
> A key question we are stuck on is whether in Korean it is acceptable
> to expand between Han and Hangul characters even when Hangul is not
> expanded.
>
> For example, is it OK to expand
>   0.  서울특별시(서울特別市)는 한반도
> as
>   1.  서울특별시(서울 特 別 市 )는    한반도
> ?
> We suspect this is not ideal, but want to know whether this is
> (A) bad or (B) broken.
>
> For comparison, here are examples of English justification:
>   0.  This is a justification example.
>   1.  This          is           a          justification         example.
>   2.  T h i s     i s    a    j u s t i f i c a t i o n    e x a m p l e .
>   3.  This        is        a       just   ifica   tion         ex  ample.
>
> (A) Bad: #1 & #2
>   #1 & #2 look bad because there is too much space making it hard to read.
> (B) Broken: #3
>   #3 is broken because, while the spaces within words are smaller
>   than between words, they are placed where there shouldn't be spaces,
>   distorting the text.
>
> And here are examples of Japanese justification:
>   0. Elikaは勉強しますから寝ませんでした。
>   1. E l i k a は 勉 強 し ま す か ら 寝 ま せ ん で し た。
>   2. Elika                   は勉強しますから寝ませんでした。
>   3. Elika    は   勉   強   しますから   寝   ませんでした。
>
> (A) Bad: #1 & #2
>   #1 is not good because it is preferred not to expand Roman in most cases;
>   but it is acceptable to put space there.
>   #2 is not ideal because there is too much space, creating discontinuity.
> (B) Broken: #3
>   #3 is broken because Japanese does not accept to treat Kanji and Kana
>   differently for justification.
>
> So, please let us know, is example #1 for Korean--putting space between
> Han but not Hangul--considered (A) bad or (B) broken?
>
> Thank you!
>
> ~fantasai
>
>