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May 21, 2023
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Chinese font punctuation incorrect widths

  • May 21, 2023
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Hello, I'm laying out a bilingual, Traditional Chinese + English document. I'm using the client's house font, Noto Sans TC. For some reason my Indesign is using half-width characters for all the punctuation in the Chinese text, which is messing up their line-breaks and layout. The font definitely includes full-width punctuation (because they have used it on other documents), and chaning to another Chinese font displays the same punctuation correctly as full-width, but not the font I need to use. Can anyone advise on what might be causing this problem? Thank you so much!

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I have resolved this. The Chinese text was set to auto-kern (metric, in this case) which messes up the mono-spacing of the characters. Setting it all to '0' kerning solved the spacing issues for me.

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Participant
April 19, 2025

Thanks! You have solved my problem!

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May 22, 2023
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I have resolved this. The Chinese text was set to auto-kern (metric, in this case) which messes up the mono-spacing of the characters. Setting it all to '0' kerning solved the spacing issues for me.

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April 12, 2024

Thank you for posting this! You solved my problem.