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All-Chinese paragraphs have a paragraph indent of two character widths in the first line (except when a paragraph follows directly on a heading or a line space, as per Brill Typographic Style). See § 3.4.1 Line Head Indent at the Beginning of Paragraphs in W3C Requirements for Chinese Text Layout. This is easily defined by beginning each indented all-Chinese paragraph with two 'ideographic spaces', U+3000, which are defined as being one character wide.

Subheading Auto-Numbers Formatting

Because of the smaller choice in font styles available in Chinese text (Brill currently uses only regular and bold Song/Ming styles as standard type styles) the distinction between different heading levels in all-Chinese text is apt to become obscured. As of January 21, 2021, the following instructions can be used to remedy such a typographic defect:

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