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Originally Posted by herbalist
[q]It wasn't a problem in formal publishing either:
see http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8828/sample2c.jpg
This is a random page from The Eagle-shooting Heroes Vol. 1, first edition published in 1976 by Ming Pao Daily News. Louis Cha put a lot of effort and he owned Ming Pao at the time. Print quality and not in doubt. |
I also have several of Cha's books published in 1983. It seems that that publisher accepts a combination of "：「" to start a line. But you won't find a line started with a comma, full-stop, exclamation marks, question mark or closing parenthesis and you won't find a line ended with opening parenthesis.
As for the orientation of the layout. Horizontal layout is set by the Communist party and widely adopted in Mainland China although they don't reject vertical layout completely. Horizontal layout is also more and more popular in Hong Kong (I think about 50-50) but some publishers and writers still insist using vertical layout. Some writers even stated clearly their books must adopt vertical layout.