[XeTeX] Linebreak in Simplified Chinese

[Jonathan Kew]

On 21 Oct 2005, at 8:38 pm, Jim Dai wrote:

> I have two questions that are related to Simplified Chinese.
>
> 1) I find the linebreaks have a problem. Adding
> \XeTeXlinebreaklocale "en" solves most of the probelm, but
>  some lines still have
> zigzag endings. Change "en" to "zh-cn" does not help.
>  What else can I do here?

Certain inter-character breaks are not acceptable in Chinese text,  
and so some lines may end up a character shorter than others. If you  
don't want a ragged margin, then you need to introduce some  
stretchability into the lines; you can do this with:

     \XeTeXlinebreakskip = 0pt plus 1pt

which allows a small amount of stretchability at each potential line- 
break XeTeX finds.

>
> 2) How can I let section heading into large bold faces?

You'll want a document class with large bold headings, or a package  
that lets you adjust the formatting of headings; I don't know LaTeX  
packages and can't suggest anything specific, but I'm sure others can.

JK