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Originally Posted by ericshliao
Why do you want to prevent "line-starting punctuation"? I live in a place where Traditon Chinese is native and it seems that we don't care about the issue. I don't remember there is such rule to avoid "line-starting punctuation".
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I hope you are not chinese. There are rules stating clearly that all single punctuation marks (e.g. full-stop, comma) and ending parenthesis (e.g. ), ]) cannot start on a new line while all starting parenthesis cannot put at the end of a line. These rules also exists in Japanese.
Usually, each punctuation mark will occupy 1 full character space (with 2 exceptions) but this is not set in stone, especially in printing materials or documents created by word processors. In order to fully-adjust the text and obey the above rules at the same time, spaces occupy by the punctuation marks (including Arabic digits, English characters) in each line will vary a bit. Word processors such as MS Word will do this automatically for you. Web Browsers will also obey these rules but they won't fully-adjust the text so if you read a Chinese web page, the paragraphs are ragged instead.
Although LRF/LRS is designed by Japanese, they didn't include such rules when rendering Japanese/Chinese text.