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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
Afraid I've never done Chinese in TeX, so I'm pretty useless there (sorry again!). Just threw together a couple of pages for a PDF with the most basic settings. This is straight from a word processor, and I didn't bother with punctuation compression or anything too formal, but it shows the basic idea...
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Thanks, LDBoblo! That's great.
I'm not particularly enamoured with any of the solutions... I wonder if line-starting punctuation would seem/feel less wrong, if it was not so visually distinct both in Western and Chinese writing systems.
e.g.: If the comma character was "氷"... (I know it already has a meaning, but obviously I cannot very well input an as yet non-existent CJK character.) Perhaps in writing where words are already not separated, the sometimes (from a western typographic perspective) unorthodox placement of it at the beginning of a line would not be too jarring... as Eric's comments already suggest. And given that the character does not look strikingly different from other Hanzi characters, there would be no visual jarring either.
Note: I'm not suggesting this is how Chinese should be written. I'm now proposing a pure thought experiment... primarily to LDBoblo, but happily enough to anyone else who'd like to share their opinion.
- Ahi