Re: [Groff] Re: groff: radical re-implementation

[Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@riken.go.jp>]

Hi,

At Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:14:44 +0200 (CEST),
Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:

> > I think *ideograms* have fixed width everywhere.
> 
> Well, maybe.  But sometimes there is kerning.  Please consult Ken
> Lunde's `CJKV Information Processing' for details.  Example:
> 
>    〇
>    一
>    〇

Wow!  This is the first time I received a Japanese mail from
non-Japanese speaker.

Everyone, please notice the header of 
> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
from Werner's mail.  (This mail will have the same header
since I cited the Japanese characters.)

BTW, you may be right, since I am not an expert on typesetting.
However, I prefer fixed-width ideograms even for such cases.
I have never seen any printed matters with non-fixed-width
ideograms even for such cases.

I have seen the book at a few bookstores (not translated in Japanese
yet).  Though I am interested in it, the book is too thick for me...
(Even if the book were in Japanese, it would be heavy for me.)

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Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/