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Originally Posted by lionfish
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.
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Thanks, lionfish!
Are there any English language books that you would recommend regarding modern (and perhaps also classical) Asian typesetting... and... whatever the equivalent would be called when no mechanical press is used.
- Ahi