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Old 09-03-2009, 08:27 PM   #12
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hi, modern Chinese books are never really laid out in a grid. This use to be true of old printed books and before the introduction of punctuations. Traditional Chinese are laid out vertically from right to left. You can check out many example using google books. You may encounter samples that are lay out in a grid - that's because before the introduction of computer typesetting and it is done using lead printing blocks.

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