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Originally Posted by herbalist
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.
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Typography/typographical not grammar/grammatical.
And while the referenced material may be a law, it would be arguably a case of a central authority (the PRC government) on a given language (simplified Chinese) prescribing rules of correct usage. This happens in most languages around the world... even if not usually in the form of explicit laws.
- Ahi