Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> I've run into a problem where I need to know what characters don't
> have a specified baseline in a font. It seems that when Latin and Han
> character appear in the same font the font has a baseline, but it only
> applies to the Latin characters. The Han characters all have a
> baseline through their middle, apparently.
>
> The question is, what classes of characters behave like the Han
> characters? Are Hangul the same way? Kana? Yi? Any other characters?
I'd expect all CJK characters to have their baseline through the middle,
including fullwidth Latin letters.
This is probably unrelated but I notice that, in some traditional
typographical styles, punctuation signs such as full stop and comma are in
the middle of the character cell, equally spaced from the four sides. This
allows the same glyph to be usable in horizontal and vertical layouts.
BTW, I heard strange things about baselines, such as that the baseline for
Indic fonts should be near the top of letters, while for good Arabic
typography it should be oblique. Can someone confirm these notions?
_ Marco
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