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Advanced East-Asian layout features #193

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be5invis opened this issue Mar 23, 2023 · 3 comments
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Advanced East-Asian layout features #193

be5invis opened this issue Mar 23, 2023 · 3 comments
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feature request New feature or request text Text layout, shaping, internationalization, etc. tracking-issue An issue that tracks a larger piece of work.

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be5invis commented Mar 23, 2023 •
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This include...

  • Vertical text (tb-rl for CJK; tb-lr for Mongolian, Manchu and Xibe).
  • Composite fonts: switching font depending on script.
  • Kinsoku and punctuation space adjustments.
  • Ruby.
  • Kumimoji.
  • Warichu.
@laurmaedje laurmaedje added feature request New feature or request text Text layout, shaping, internationalization, etc. labels Apr 2, 2023
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This issue is too broad to be directly actionable, but we can keep it as a tracking issue.

  • Ruby is currently available as a package.
  • The font switching can be done with script-based regex show rules, but it's not supported natively.

@laurmaedje laurmaedje added the tracking-issue An issue that tracks a larger piece of work. label Nov 5, 2023
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Sample images:

  1. Vertical (tb-rl) text in Japanese:
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  2. Vertical (tb-lr) text in Mongolian:
    image

  3. Ruby in Japanese:
    image

  4. Ruby in Chinese. Note that Bopomofo has special ruby form in horizontal layout:
    image
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  5. Warichu (in tb-rl):
    image

  6. Horizontal-in-Vertical in Japanese:
    image

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