Inasmuch as... » I18n http://inasmuch.as ...Life's but a walking shadow Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:21:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Reading JIS X 4051 online http://inasmuch.as/2009/11/12/reading-jis-x-4051-online/ http://inasmuch.as/2009/11/12/reading-jis-x-4051-online/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:20:24 +0000 tkg http://inasmuch.as/?p=391 Continue reading →]]> Inasmuch as the “Requirements for Japanese Text Layout” Note refers (and defers) a lot to JIS X 4051, “Formatting Rules for Japanese documents”,  it is helpful to also read it (or, for some of us at least, to look at the diagrams and puzzle through some of the text). You can buy the printed book from the Japanese Standards Association Web Store, or you can view (but not print) the PDF version within your browser.  Here’s how:

  • Go to http://www.jisc.go.jp/app/JPS/JPSO0020.html, enter “X4051″ in the first text input field (the one with the “JIS” prefix), then press enter.
  • On the next page, select “JISX4051″.
  • On the following page, there’ll be links to the PDFs of the parts of JIS X 4051. You can view them in your browser, but you can’t print them.  (If your browser launches in an external application to view PDFs,  all you might see is a bunch of blank pages.)
]]> http://inasmuch.as/2009/11/12/reading-jis-x-4051-online/feed/ 0 Designing Japanese documents http://inasmuch.as/2009/07/23/designing-japanese-documents/ http://inasmuch.as/2009/07/23/designing-japanese-documents/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:22:26 +0000 tkg http://inasmuch.as/?p=253 Continue reading →]]> Inasmuch as the W3C Japanese Language Task Force’s “Requirements for Japanese Text Layout” Note was released last month, my article about it, “Designing Japanese documents“, is now available from tcworld magazine.

The Note “describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO”. It covers page design conventions as well as how to layout lines. Naturally it covers Japanese-specific details such as vertical text, mixing Japanese and Latin text, ruby (small-sized, supplementary text), warichu (inline cutting notes), tate-chu-yoko (horizontal in vertical setting), and furiwake (multiple phrases or sentences in in the middle of a line).

The article provides an overview of the Note (and was good practice for the in-depth analysis that needs to be done for one of the XSL 2.0 requirements), but if you want all the details, then you need the Note (and if you really want all the details, then you also need JIS X 4051, and possibly assistance in reading it).

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