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Old 09-04-2009, 03:58 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo View Post
I'm offline in just a bit but I think that since punctuation itself has a bit of semantic value (though perhaps a dependent one), it would still be uncomfortable to allow punctuation to start/stop lines...not just visually but perhaps syntactically as well.

In most of my Chinese books, the line length is great enough to allow flexible spacing for justification (between characters) without being overly obvious as my pdf examples were. Admittedly, most are also vertically typeset. I'll look about next chance I get to find some properly horizontally set materials. Do you have in mind literature formatting or are you thinking of more compact stuff?
Literature... but for the PRS-505... so the available space is not crazy tight, but definitely limited.

I guess I find the grid notion to be very aesthetic... but there can really be no punctuation-position-respecting typographic solution that keeps it in place... unless punctuation was placed above or below the character, between the interline space, I suppose.

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