Formatting cjk characters – Adobe InDesign User Manual
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Formatting CJK characters
Apply shatai to text
Rotate characters
Adjust aki before and after characters
Use tate-chu-yoko
Add Ruby to text
Apply kenten
Align text of different sizes
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.
Shatai
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).
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