Am 19.02.2009 um 14:36 schrieb Yue Wang:
On the other hand, as Yanrui's sample seems to be much better than mine, I made an illustration of Japanese typesetting rule on his sample: http://people.ktug.or.kr/~nomos/mine/japanesetypesetting.png . I guess that Chinese typesetting practice is not much different from this one.
Maybe it is different (I have no idea about Japanese typesetting, I can only speak Chinese, English, and Korean). - There are no "halfwidth punctuation" in most Chinese fonts. All the glyphs in those fonts are of same width. Only a small portion of Chinese fonts (like Adobe's OpenType fonts) contain these glyphs in certain features. - halfwidth glyph+0.5em minus0.5em ( = 1em) is not right, the punctuation should be compressed. some combinations like ：" should also be compressed.
What method do you want to use. 1. Make a punctuation half width and insert space between them, e.g. 組版\hbox to .5em{」\hss}\hbox to .5em{。\hss} \hskip .5em\hbox to .5em{\hss「}原則 2. Let the punctuation full width and kern char combinations, e.g. 組版」\kern.5em。\kern.5em「原則 Wolfgang