行送り
Japanese edit
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 行 | 送 |
| ぎょう Grade: 2 |
おく Grade: 3 |
| jūbakoyomi | |
Etymology edit
行 (“line”) + 送り (“sending; feed”)
Noun edit
- a line feed (On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage return)
- Coordinate term: 字送り (jiokuri)
- (typography) line height, the distance between the center points of the advance heights (in horizontal text) or advance widths (in vertical text) of glyphs in two successive lines, often called "leading" in modern Western typography
Usage notes edit
Since line height is almost always uniform unlike character width in both Japanese and Western typographies, there are no meaningful differences between 行送り (gyōokuri) and modern "leading", even though the former is traditionally measured between the center points of lines, while the latter is measured between baselines. The only exception is how these two measurements are calculated in page layout: Japanese typesetters start with the body text's length/width, line count and font size first, then work backward to 行送り (gyōokuri) and 行間 (gyōkan), while Western typesetters simply start with "leading" (which can be set automatically by software, typically to 120% of the font size). The Japanese approach ensures perfect line alignment between text columns in a page, which is not a concern in Western layout. Mathematically speaking, 行送り (gyōokuri) = 行間 (gyōkan) + font size. 行送り (gyōokuri) can be measured in points or 歯 (ha).