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Style issues for Japanese
Separating content & presentation
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problems
of resolution to support bold and italics in
small CJK
characters on-screen
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different
ways of emphasizing text in Japanese (wakiten
&
amikake)
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different
fonts need to be used for font-family
assignments
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no
upper- vs. lower-case distinction in
Japanese
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no
convention of distinguishing between
proportional and
mono-spaced fonts for Japanese scripts
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line
heights, paraleading, and possibly font-size
may need
to be adapted, since Japanese characters are
more
complicated and square than eg. Latin
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wrapping
rules may need adjustment, since there are
no
spaces between words in Japanese