Chinese typography

Folora determines a document’s language from its content. Documents identified as Chinese get the following typesetting in writing view automatically, with no settings to change and no changes to the file’s content.

Mixed Chinese and Latin text

Where Chinese characters are next to Latin letters or numbers, a space of about one eighth of a character width is added on screen. Where the text already has a space, no extra width is added. This spacing is for display only; no spaces are added to the file.

Punctuation and line breaks

• Periods, commas and similar punctuation never start a line.
• Full-width punctuation at the end of a line can hang outside the line instead of moving alone to the next line.
• When two full-width punctuation marks are adjacent, the extra half-width space between them is removed.
• English words in Chinese paragraphs are not broken in the middle; the whole word moves to the next line.

In English documents, straight quotes, -- and ... are shown as curly quotes, dashes and ellipses. Chinese documents keep the punctuation as it was typed and skip this conversion.

Fonts and line height

Folora determines whether a document is in Traditional or Simplified Chinese by the number of traditional and simplified characters, and shows it in PingFang TC or PingFang SC accordingly. If you chose a different Text font in Fonts and display, the chosen font takes priority.

Chinese documents have a slightly larger line height than Western text, and Line and paragraph spacing in Settings adjusts from that base.

Notes

• Chinese fonts have no italic glyphs, so Chinese text in *emphasis* is shown with a simulated slant.
• Source view does not apply this typesetting.