Primer on Japanese typographic rules
Session 6
Saturday, 2 October 2021
8:00 PM CST – 8:30 PM CST
Talk
History
- English
This presentation will introduce the particularities of typesetting Japanese with its mixture of writing systems (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Romaji). After going through some history examples we will dive into the requirements of modern day typesetting Japanese with mixtures of languages and writing systems.
After the general introduction to typesetting with Kanji, we will discuss a few typesetting systems and their support for proper Japanese layout.
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Norbert Preining
Japan
Norbert is a mathematician and logician by education, currently working at Fujitsu research and development on machine learning. Already early on he got hooked onto foreign languages, mostly due to different writing systems, which led to about 15 different languages and several writing systems Norbert is more or less fluent with. Since his move to Japan in 2009 he grew a serious interest in Japanese typography and contributed to various projects related to fonts, typesetting, and typography.
