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Originally Posted by lionfish
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.
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Well, is your copy of Louis Cha’s novel layout in a grid? Or is the spacing between the characters adjusted ever so imperceptably?
So the Chinese government actually promulgated a set of rules regarding published books in mainland China? That’s a law, not grammatical rules. In Hong Kong, we used to write our essays on grid papers, if starting the next line is a “,” or a “:”, I will put in the punctuation mark and not omit a space or two just to make sure that comma or colon does not occupy the start of a line. If however, I’ve forgotten to use the squiggly to underline book names or start a new paragraph, I would not be punctuating correctly. If I publish a book in China without following their rules, I probably ran afoul of their law but I still haven't committed any grammatical errors.