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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
characters on-screen => different ways of
emphasizing text
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different fonts, and possibly font-size,
need to be used for font-
family assignments
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line heights, paragraph spacing may need to be
adapted, since
characters may be more complicated
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wrapping rules may need adjustment (eg. there
are no
spaces between words in Chinese)
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no upper- vs. lower-case
distinction
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no convention of distinguishing between
proportional and
mono-spaced fonts
