Formatting cjk characters, Apply shatai to text, Rotate characters – Adobe InCopy CC 2015 User Manual
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Typography
Last updated 6/13/2015
Formatting CJK characters
Apply shatai to text
In traditional typesetting technology, characters were slanted by using a lens to distort the glyphs when being set on
film. This oblique style is known as shatai. Shatai is distinct from a simple slant of the glyphs, because it also scales the
glyphs. You can adjust the magnification or angle of text you want to slant from the center point, without changing the
height of the glyph, using the shatai feature in InDesign.
A No scale applied B Magnification 30%, 45 shatai C Selecting the Adjust Tsume option D Selecting the Adjust Rotation option
1
Select text.
2
Select Shatai from the Character panel menu or Control panel menu.
3
Specify the following options, and click OK:
• Specify the degree of skew in Magnification (In traditional typesetting technology terms, 10% magnification is
lens 1, and 40% magnification is lens 4).
• Set the angle of obliqueness to 30, 45, or 60, in Angle.
• Select Adjust Rotation to rotate the glyphs, and display horizontal lines horizontally for horizontal text, and
vertical lines vertically for vertical text.
• Select Adjust Tsume to apply jidori.
You can fine tune the rotated oblique effect for individual characters, after applying shatai to text.
Rotate characters
1
Select the characters.
2
In the Character panel, type a value for Character Rotation
Specify a minus value to rotate the character to the
right (clockwise).
Adjust aki before and after characters
1
Select opening parenthesis or closing parenthesis with the type tool.