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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 This is a work in progress. […] http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-eval-plan.php offtopic adobe cs6 http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-eval-plan.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 You probably know that in Microsoft Word typing three hyphens gives you a dash; but what if the reverse is true, that even if you choose an em-dash from Insert Symbols or the Character Chooser, you still end up only getting three hyphens, complete with the unsighty spaces inbetween? What will you do? Do you think this is a crazy suggestion? Quite the contrary: millions of Chinese people are living with a similar problem every day when they need to type a Chinese dash. […] http://gniw.ca/unicode-two-em-dash.php typography unicode fail http://gniw.ca/unicode-two-em-dash.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 In Chinese, a line break followed by one to three outdents (of fullwidth space units) can serve as an honorific marker. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-honorific-outdents.php typography http://gniw.ca/cjk-honorific-outdents.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 What does the word “Asian” really mean? This is actually not just some random rhetorical question, as just a while ago I found (via ProZ) that in the UK — at least among the older population —, the word “Asian” means “Indian”. As a Canadian, this naturally came as a total shock to me, as the word “Asian” does not have such a connotation here. In fact, in Canada (and on the Internet at large, as far as I can gather) the word “Asian” often means “East/Southeast Asian”. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-me-asian.php typography software terminology fail http://gniw.ca/cjk-me-asian.php
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Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 With the mandatory switchover to Timeline, Facebook is now throwing away the last bit of its roots. […] http://gniw.ca/musings-facebook-timeline.php language offtopic http://gniw.ca/musings-facebook-timeline.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 Let’s go straight to the point: in short, the em is not a suitable typographic unit for CJK typography because it is related to only one writing direction, but CJK uses two writing directions. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-fullwidth-space-as-unit.php typography http://gniw.ca/cjk-fullwidth-space-as-unit.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 This sample is taken from page 179 in Communication in Chinese: On Writing (ISBN 962-937-068-9), which is essentially a style manual for the Chinese language as used in Hong Kong. It was published by the City University of Hong Kong in 2001. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-honorific-fullwidth-space-samples.php typography http://gniw.ca/cjk-honorific-fullwidth-space-samples.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 What horror to see an ellipsis with the dots at the x-height instead of on the baseline! What went wrong? Shouldn’t dots of an ellipsis always sit on the baseline? Of course, you know the answer: a CJK font is the culprit. And this scenario nicely illustrates why the Unicode standard is wrong about the ellipsis. […] http://gniw.ca/unicode-ellipsis-unification.php typography unicode fail http://gniw.ca/unicode-ellipsis-unification.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 This is a continuation of Round 1, focusing on observations I made during my attempts to get InDesign to create an EPUB out of my test file. EPUB oddities Loss of chapter drops [Screen capture of Adobe Digital Editions, showing how the chapter drop has been lost] […] http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-indesign-and-ebooks-round-2.php adobe cs6 software typography indesign http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-indesign-and-ebooks-round-2.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 This got to be the most unexpected discovery while I am still getting my Adobe applications set up: a translation error. […] http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-dans-francais.php adobe cs6 offtopic translation http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-dans-francais.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 My CS6 evaluation copy expired before I could carry out any meaningful tests, but the time-limited student discount was too tempting, so I finally decided to lease my copy of CS6 through the so-called Creative Cloud. […] http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-cc-impressions.php adobe cs6 software typography indesign http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-cc-impressions.php
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Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 At Tuesday’s “opening” reception I bumped into Denise, who summarily introduced me to two of her volunteers as “the most active member on the AIGA website” (which I, naturally, flatly denied—“Or was,” I said) and persuaded me to do a video shoot. […] http://gniw.ca/musings-wed-am-video-shoot.php offtopic gainconference http://gniw.ca/musings-wed-am-video-shoot.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 Just as vertical writing of CJK languages is finally being widely understood and supported in software, a new trend that does not conform to this understanding has slowly been taking hold. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-ltr-vertical.php typography fail http://gniw.ca/cjk-ltr-vertical.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 I was trying to look for some open-source invoicing apps and found two candidates on Freshmeat, one of them Laurux, the other L-invoice. Since Laurux turned out to not work on the Mac (its dependency, Gambas, did not compile, or rather did not configure), L-invoice was left as the only candidate. […] http://gniw.ca/setting-up-linvoice.php offtopic oss http://gniw.ca/setting-up-linvoice.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 In HTML 4.01, the standard states that “the P element represents a paragraph”. However, it is very easy to see that it in fact cannot represent true paragraphs, and it is in fact visual formatting disguised as structural markup, and, as we will see, W3C’s double-standard treatments of P and U shows a certain hard-to-understand hypocricy. […] http://gniw.ca/html-p.php typography html fail http://gniw.ca/html-p.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 What if commas were to be banned from web pages? You might think I am exaggerating, but there are two Chinese punctuation marks that are very poorly understood, rarely mentioned by any book on CJK typography, and one of them is on the brink of effectively being banned from web pages. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-proper-name-and-citation-marks.php typography http://gniw.ca/cjk-proper-name-and-citation-marks.php
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Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 Anyway, I went to the breakfast presentation for webfonts Saturday morning. There were some stuff in the first half of the presentation that I didn’t know before (such as the need to tweak the actual outlines to adapt fonts for web use — something reiterated by Jonathan Hoefler later in the afternoon). However, one thing specifically caught my attention: the mention of the “SEO” benefits of webfonts. […] http://gniw.ca/css-sat-am-webfonts-comments.php html offtopic aigapivot http://gniw.ca/css-sat-am-webfonts-comments.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 Just a few days ago, I was at a site (that shall remain unnamed) to try out a few things. The experience got me thinking how a bad user experience can negate all the good visual design a site might have. […] http://gniw.ca/ux-as-org-image.php offtopic ux fail http://gniw.ca/ux-as-org-image.php
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Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 This year, I went to DesignThinkers for the first time. For some reason, I didn’t really feel a connection to DesignThinkers, which actually is odd, but it was something I noticed even before I went, and I talked about it with a couple of my friends in my program afterwards. My current hypothesis (not sure if I’d want to even “test” this) is that I know that as soon as I graduate, my connection to the RGD will be severed: I am a student member only because I am a student in an art school right now, but once I graduate I will no longer qualify for any member category. […] http://gniw.ca/musings-dt2012.php offtopic servicedesign rgdDT http://gniw.ca/musings-dt2012.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 I decided to put in some practice in creating ebooks, so near the second last week of May I tried to lay out something short (Ryan Kelln’s The Magic Fish) and make it into a couple of ebooks, specifically an accessible PDF and an EPUB. […] http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-indesign-and-ebooks-round-1.php adobe cs6 software typography indesign acrobat http://gniw.ca/adobe-cs6-indesign-and-ebooks-round-1.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 In Western typography, the paragraph indent is purely a matter of the typographer’s preference. In contrast, in Chinese typography, while it still is a matter of the typographer’s preference, there is such a thing as a standard paragraph indent. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-standard-paragraph-indent.php typography http://gniw.ca/cjk-standard-paragraph-indent.php
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Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 As I have exactly six weeks between the end of Coursera’s NLP course and the beginning of design school (and because I envision some knowledge of HCI will be useful in the next two years, even if what I’m going to learn might need to be “unlearned”) I took the plunge and enrolled in Coursera’s HCI course, taught by Stanford’s Prof. Scott Klemmer. […] http://gniw.ca/musings-hci-class-week-1.php coursera offtopic http://gniw.ca/musings-hci-class-week-1.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 In Chinese, the word “italics” or “italic” is translated 斜體 (xiétǐ / ce⁴tai², “slanted type”). This is, in my personal opinion, one fine example of an accepted mistranslation that has stemmed from a gross misunderstanding of the subject matter. In the West, most — and I’d dare to say all — graphic designers would know that “slanted type” and “(true) italics” are very different animals. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-italics.php typography terminology translation http://gniw.ca/cjk-italics.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 This article was written in 2011 and last updated on October 3, 2011. Since that time things have changed, and U is no longer a deprecated element in HTML5. The article is kept here as a record of the states of things around that time. […] http://gniw.ca/html-u-removal.php typography html fail http://gniw.ca/html-u-removal.php
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Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 I have been doing timelines as tables. Which makes sense, since timelines are basically a listing of notable events broken down by years and months, but tables do not look interesting, and most importantly they don’t look like timelines. […] http://gniw.ca/css-turning-a-table-sideways-with-css.php offtopic css webdesign http://gniw.ca/css-turning-a-table-sideways-with-css.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 The full-width space’s function as punctuation separating logical groupings of words is relatively well-known; however, it also has a function in the Chinese language that seems to be completely unknown in the West. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-honorific-fullwidth-space.php typography http://gniw.ca/cjk-honorific-fullwidth-space.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 http://gniw.ca/cjk-rtl-horizontal.php typography unicode fail http://gniw.ca/cjk-rtl-horizontal.php
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Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 http://gniw.ca/musings-hci-class.php http://gniw.ca/musings-hci-class.php
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Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 This question of whether brands should only be transliterated came up on #pidgin. Actually, it rather first came up on the translators list, but the question specifically relating to brands was mentioned on the channel. […] http://gniw.ca/trans-brand-names.php translation offtopic http://gniw.ca/trans-brand-names.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 Most software used to not know how to deal with long strings of CJK text that contain no spaces. Now that they know they can break it up between pairs of kanji, we are now faced with the opposite problem: that line breaks are occurring in inappropriate places. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-beyond-kinsokushori.php typography fail http://gniw.ca/cjk-beyond-kinsokushori.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 The traditional CJK pilcrow is a thin full-width sans-serif circle. This can still be found in some books that uses older typography, in particular the CUV version of the bible with “old punctuation”. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-pilcrow.php typography http://gniw.ca/cjk-pilcrow.php
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Warning: strftime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in /var/www/gniw.ca/defs.inc on line 247

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Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 The first chapter of Design Diaries: Creative Process in Graphic Design talks about Stefan Sagmeister. I did not expect to get much from that chapter; I simply could not imagine how I could even aspire to be like him, but I was shocked when I read that He summarizes the perfect ratio within a job as: »50/50 – 50 per cent what I know and 50 per cent what I don’t«. (page 13) […] http://gniw.ca/musings-stefan-sagmeisters-wisdom.php http://gniw.ca/musings-stefan-sagmeisters-wisdom.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 The main focus of this site is about CJK typography, mainly Chinese typography, and there are two reasons why I am focusing particularly on Chinese typography. […] http://gniw.ca/about.php http://gniw.ca/about.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 In Chinese, a line break can serve as an honorific marker. This usage is a traditional notation called 平抬 (píngtái / ping⁴toi⁴, loosely “flush-to-margin as formula of respect”) and it is still very much in current use. It is used in both personal and formal letters. […] http://gniw.ca/cjk-honorific-linebreak.php typography http://gniw.ca/cjk-honorific-linebreak.php
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/ Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:32:40 +0000 There has been quite a bit of discussion on the W3C lists regarding the need for a DI (definition item) element, one such thread being a reply from Hixie that he cc’d to www-style. As far as I can tell, he is against DI: he thinks that it is only trying to solve a presentational (CSS side) issue. Yet fantasai thinks that the lack of DI is really a structural (HTML side) issue. I am siding with her and say it’s a structural issue; in fact I would go on to say that this is a larger problem of failing to identify the correct structures that certain “structural” elements are supposed to represent. […] http://gniw.ca/html-p-blockquote-dl.php typography language webdesign html fail http://gniw.ca/html-p-blockquote-dl.php