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Is it possible to limit a line to display a fixed number of full-width characters?

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July 28, 2024
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Is it possible to limit a line to display a fixed number of full-width characters (punctuation also counts as a full-width character).

I've tried squeezing with punctuation and it's very difficult. Can this be achieved with a grid?

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http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=gd80ea56218e503b21000557081cc18f8d3243df996

一字一格.zip

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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@dublove

Can you use fixed-width font?

James Gifford—NitroPress

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I know the CJK version of InDesign has grid-based glyph layout, but it may be only for Japanese. I am not sure if Chinese is supported or can use the character grid.

In general terms, I can't think of any solution but (1) centered tabs for each of the lines or (2) a table with an appropriately formatted Cell Style etc.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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In general terms, I can't think of any solution but (1) centered tabs for each of the lines or (2) a table with an appropriately formatted Cell Style etc.

By @James Gifford—NitroPress

(1) would require adding tab befre each character?

(2) would require converting each character into a separate cell?

At least there are spaces already:

unfortunatey not after "," - but that will be easy to fix.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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After adding few extra spaces and hard returns to split into lines and converting to table with "space" as a column separator:

(I've used a different font)

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