Am 23.06.2011 um 20:23 schrieb S Barmeier:
Japanese was working more or less a few months ago.
It was working till February (I tested it with a old beta) and also when i comment the mentioned but i have no clue what’s the purpose of the line.
I guess vertical typesetting is a little more involved, but as far as horizontal typesetting goes, most of the spacing is coded into the font already (monospacing).
ConTeXt MkIV doesn’t support vertical writing but with a little bit of TeX knowledge it’s possible to add it, the result is not perfect [1] (there is no space between the characters) but it shows it can be done.
When the Latin alphabet enters, as is becoming more and more common, especially in technical literature, the monospacing breaks down, and common practice is to just typeset paragraphs in block form, adding the necessary spacing.
But it wouldn’t harm when ConTeXt would support monospaced output, proportional spacing seems to be for the moment the only format. [1] http://d.pr/yhvh Wolfgang