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Originally Posted by ericshliao
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.
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Or consistently insert a slightly wider space between each character on a given line, to push at least one character onto the next line, so that the comma becomes the 2nd character.
That would work even with monospace fonts. Right?
This seems to be exactly what the Chinese newspaper I have does.
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Originally Posted by ericshliao
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.
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In English and western languages, there is also space between letters, just as there can be spaces between Chinese characters. That's what I'm alluding to above.
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