Several Possibilities of Straight Chinese and English Typography

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Because the Chinese box composition in the arrangement has a very good flexibility, so whether it is straight or horizontal writing direction can be a good adaptation. In modern times in order to implement computerization, so that the text and information to bring popularity, horizontal writing typesetting is widely used. But in fact on many occasions, such as more emphasis on the Chinese text of the expression of the book, will still use straight writing to do typesetting, reading has a completely different reading experience

Straight book is quite different from horizontal book

Chinese characters use straight writing reasons, in fact, there are many claims, one of the most common explanation is the development of bamboo from the development. To the proportion of the majority of right-handed, for example, when writing bamboo, the left hand holding simple, right hand writing. At the time of writing, the direction of writing and the direction of writing made it very natural to develop a straight book, until later, although the writing of the car evolved into paper, but the practice of writing a book was followed The

Chinese characters use straight book or cross book good, in fact, each have a lot of support. In the case of writing, in fact, when writing in the general text size, the fluency of the direct book is better than that of the cross, which is due to the action of the elbow as the support When writing horizontally, it is easy to move up and down as a result of the rotation of the elbow, resulting in skewing. And straight writing, is the whole arm of the telescopic, to complete the book to write the action, will not appear to move the elbow rotation, writing easier to maintain the correct sense of line sentence.

And in the reading of the differences, in fact, there are more different views discussed, some people think that straight books read more smoothly, and some people think that cross-book is suitable for people to quickly scan the text when the direction of more suitable for fast reading, Although this part is different because of personal feelings, but in fact most people can be very smooth to adapt to the book and the reading of the book.

The direction of the text

Since the use of straight books, then it will involve a use of cross-book will not encounter the problem: "In the end the second line of the first line in the left, or the right?" We already know the direction of the Chinese language is from the right To the left, an interpretation of the same bamboo is like this: it may be because the use of right hand writing and left hand holding bamboo, when you want to replace a bamboo when the (line), the left hand will naturally put the bamboo in the first Line of the left, and then developed the habit.

But the development of the paper to write, from right to left the direction of the text appeared obvious shortcomings, such as the right hand to write text, it is easy to be blocked by the previous writing of the text (this we should have encountered). And in fact the writing of Chinese characters strokes, generally from top to bottom, from left to right writing direction, writing style and article paragraphs are arranged in different ways, how much is a little contradiction exists. From this, the direction from left to right seems to be more suitable for logical.

Write here, do not know if you still remember the previous example: the traditional Chinese plaque, the Spring Festival on the horizontal abbreviation, in fact, a word and a line of writing, so its writing direction is also from right to left writing , But this situation in today's typography is completely the opposite, as we read newspapers and magazines every day, obviously use the traditional Chinese straight book, from right to left direction, but the title part of the text but in turn use the Left to right of the cross book writing, it seems a bit strange thing.

It is because of the change from the left to the right of the cross-book reading is the implementation of modern Chinese characters to do the change, so the spread of many small stories, such as in 1940 in Chongqing Beibei Museum marked "panda". As many Chinese users had begun to get used to the left-to-right Chinese reading, they were misinterpreted as "pandas" and "pandas" and "pandas" were the names of the animals. The story is "China Steel" into "Iron and Steel" and so on.

The traditional straight calligraphy quite emphasizes the coherence between the word and the word, in professional terms called "qi", especially the book and cursive writing. The Song Dynasty calligrapher Song Cao in the "calligraphy statement" mentioned: "Do not return to recovery, Chou repeated, bear born, love child care mother." Means that writing can not only focus on the text itself, But also must take into account the word and the word between the line and the overall sense of the line between the general requirements of the pen intentionally connected together into a line, plot into a chapter. This is one of the important reasons why calligraphy can not easily replace the book with a cross book.

The Relationship between Chinese Direct and Latin Characters

Now we often encounter straight writing situation, may be the use of straight envelopes of the occasion of the bar, first of all we look at the Chinese postal website to provide a straight envelope to write examples:

We can find that the way the straight envelope is in the way of reading from right to left: first read the address information on the far right and then read the name and address of the recipient to the left, and finally the sender information The

In this example of writing we found that the interesting point is: Chinese and Arabic numerals combined with the application of the book.

Although we are now widely used in the use of Arabic numerals, the Arabic numerals were introduced into China at the time of the 13th to the 14th centuries, that is, in the Yuan Dynasty, but were not universally used. Until the early 20th century because of the introduction of Western mathematical knowledge was slowly popularized.

And Chinese is not without the existence of numbers, and even have a different way of writing: usually written in Chinese figures such as "〇, one, two, three, four, five ..." and the so-called Chinese capital figures "zero, one, two , Sen, Stanford ... ". The former is more common, and capitalization figures because the stroke is more cumbersome relationship, more difficult to change fraud, so in financial institutions and other occasions will require the use of capital letters written in Chinese.

It is worth mentioning that "〇" is actually a letter of Chinese characters, though, "〇" does not have any character of the straight book of the characteristics of the cross. We often see that the word is usually used in the era of the show, such as "2013", so the Chinese books are actually a lot of the use of the word, including we have just seen straight envelope writing A sample map (although it is treated as an alternative). It is interesting to note that the abbreviation of the National Language Dictionary of the Ministry of Education does not contain a "○" entry, but it is written in the "zero" entry with an explanation of "zero" "u", and in the national language of the paper The word appears multiple times.

Even so, now many people do not know how to enter the word, then use the Arabic numerals "0" or English capital "O" to replace. In fact, part of the phonetic input method, as long as the "zero" pronunciation can be found in the word table "〇" the word.

Note: At present, there are OSX built-in phonetic input method, Yahoo phonetic input method has, and the Windows version of the traditional phonetic and new phonics are not included in this pronunciation, but the input method integrator to write the way to write.