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CJK typography they never taught you

Punctuation

• Why underlines are not visual formatting
• The honorific full-width space
• The traditional CJK pilcrow

Layout

• The fullwidth space as a basic typographic unit
• The honorific line break
• Honorific outdents
• The standard paragraph indent
• Beyond kinsokushori
• Vertical CJK text that runs from left to right

Standards gone wrong

Punctuation

• Failure of the HTML P element as structural markup (reprise)
• The lack of a two-em dash in Unicode
• Unification of the ellipsis in Unicode
• Removal of the U element from HTML5
• Failure of the HTML P element as structural markup

Mere semantics

Mistranslations and misunderstandings

• CJK, ME, and “Asian”
• What are italics?

My CS6 review, or something like that

• Adobe InDesign CS6 and ebooks, round 2
• Adobe InDesign CS6 and ebooks, round 1
• Adobe applications “dans” français
• First impressions of Adobe InDesign CS6 on the Creative Cloud

Off topic

• Setting up L-invoice
• The end of the original Facebook metaphor
• Turning a table “sideways” with CSS
• User experience as an organization’s image
• The alleged SEO benefits of webfonts
• Foreign brand names