- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:12:18 +0900
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, public-i18n-core@w3.org
On 2014/10/23 09:24, fantasai wrote: > Monospace is pretty straightforward: it would be a font in which all > characters > are the same width. They can be serif, sans-serif, cursive, or whatever, > but > they have to have a consistent advance width. For many East Asian fonts, > all > letters belonging to the East Asian scripts are the same width, however > punctuation, Latin, and digits are often proportional. A monospace font > will > not have proportional punctuation, Latin, or digits: all characters with an > advance width must have the same advance width. No, not exactly true. Monospace means that full-width characters have double the advance width than half-width characters. So maybe it should be called Duospace :-? Regards, Martin. > Monospace fonts are > typically > used for coding and ASCII art.
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