Re: wrapping behavior

James> Also note that many Asian languages, with Chinese, James> Japanese, and Korean as ideal examples, prefer monospaced James> characters. However, for practical purposes they only occur on bitmapped terminals anymore. James> very complex and hard to apply kerning be done to only James> certain classes of characters (punctuation, kana, roomaji, James> etc). It's not that hard; I don't know the rules, but it mostly only matters for vertical writing and romaji. James> Also word-wrapping is a very touchy subject in CJK text as James> therearenospacesbetweenwordswhichcanconfusetradtionalwordwrappingalgorithms. James> (Try M-q'ing that.) Try C-h a'ing "kinsoku". Currently partly disabled, because as usual the Japanese support was hacked in on the assumption that nobody else would ever use Mule. :-( James> Suffice to say that although many people like antialiased James> text Antialiasing is extremely important to pleasant display of ideographs, though. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.