Kumihan

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Kumihan ( Japanese 組 版 ) describes the art of setting Japanese texts in the Japanese writing system for printed media .

philosophy

A layout of western origin is designed "from the outside in". The blank page is given a page layout or the side edges are defined. The text then flows into this. The sentence structure and the reading direction are also different. In the traditional formal spelling, the Japanese characters are arranged vertically and read from right to left.

Therefore, the requirements for the design of a text with Japanese characters differ significantly from the layout for the Latin writing system . Most of the Japanese characters are roughly the same size and shape. Therefore they can be divided into squares and put together to form a grid. This results in the further division of the pages. Kumihan is the arrangement of the characters and images on a page with the help of a grid in a desired layout. It was originally used to prepare for printing with the help of movable letters ( Japanese 活字 組 版 katsuji kumihan , German for 'type set' ). Japanese text composition depends on how much text fits in a given room. It is specified how many characters should be in one line of a page. Only then does the actual arrangement begin.

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  1. ↑ Nihongo kumihan shori no yōken: W3C gijutsu nōto: utsukushiku yomiyasui moji kumihan no kihon rūru = Requirements for Japanese text layout (W3C Working Group note) . Denki Daigaku Shuppankyoku, Tokyo 2012, ISBN 978-4-501-96160-2 (English, w3.org ).
  2. ^ Joel Breckinridge: The Second Wave of Japanese Desktop Publishing. In: The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems. Volume 30, No. 6, November 27, 2000, pp. 8-9 (English; atadistancedotnet.files.wordpress.com PDF; 0.5 MB).