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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
Bookmaking is the field of the publisher. There are typography rules that govern text layout and alignment in virtually all formally written and published languages. Such typographic rules are predominantly to aid reading cohesion. Beginning a freshly broken line (not a new paragraph or sentence) with punctuation is a terribly inefficient method of reading that can adversely affect cognition. Virtually all word processors include basic spatial formatting rules to ensure that a stop or a comma for instance will not start a line, or that an opening parenthesis will not be the the final character on a line. That goes for Chinese as well.
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Definitely I am a layman for Chinese publication, but I can prove that you are wrong. Those rules applying to English publication do not absolutely apply to Traditional Chinese publication. Several books on my shelf contain lines with comma starting a line, including a dictionary edited by several language experts.
In fact, if the layout of each glyph is monospaced, it's inevitable that some comma will start a line. To avoid such problem, the font used must be proportional, not monospaced.
For English or other western language, there is space between words, so it's quite easy to avoid comma starts a line, both with monospaced or proportional fonts. But for Chinese publication, if decided to use monospaced layout, the rule to avoid comma starting a line is impossible.