LDBoblo is right in his analysis of my reasons for my question.
I suspect the issue of line-starting commas and such would never be addressed by most western typographic guides, being so simply as to be assumed to be universally agreed upon... but the issue seems magnified with Chinese (and with no obvious solution), if there is an aesthetic imperative toward typesetting as a grid. It is because of this that I figured there would be a standard way of dealing with it.
Does there seem to be consensus that the way Chinese addresses the incorrect line-starting punctuation issue is basically by ceasing to force the text into the tyranny of the grid as necessary OR foregoing the use of punctuation altogether?
- Ahi
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