2012/4/1 fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> > On 04/01/2012 08:29 AM, Ambrose LI wrote: > >> For Chinese, I think it might be useful to think of this as a “why” >> question. >> >> In Chinese, the ideographic space can be used for honorific purposes. >> This is a bit old fashioned, but this is still in use in >> certain locales in certain contexts such as formal letters. So this >> whether ideographic spaces should be kept is sometimes >> (but not always) a semantic decision. >> >> InDesign’s behaviour probably stemmed from having considered the Chinese >> usage. (Or at least I hoped so.) >> > > That brings up a question... Where is the honorific space placed wrt the > name, and what is its expected line-breaking behavior? > > The honorific space, if used, is always placed directly before the name. As far as my understanding goes (which is really not much), using honorific spaces in non-justified text is kind of pointless, since it is too hard to see if the honorific space has been used or not. It appears that there can be a line break between a honorific space and the name that follows it; I have put up a scanned sample (with a bit of an explanation) at http://bit.ly/HyKbZs -- cheers, -ambrose <http://gniw.ca>Received on Sunday, 1 April 2012 22:07:24 UTC
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