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Originally Posted by ericshliao
It's not that only I don't seem to mind. It's that the people using the same language - traditional Chinese don't mind it.
I want to remind people who are used to read page layout following widely accepted punctuation rules of western language, that although it's quite common sense that comma should not occur in the start of a line, there seems no such common sense for people using traditional Chinese when they are reading traditional Chinese text. For the western world, that common sense is constructed in these hundreds of years, I suppose, but for traditional Chinese, it's still not a common sense or unbreakable rule, since we use standard punctuations in text only in these 80 years. For western people, maybe they will think it ill-formated, looks bad or un-acceptable fault or anything else, but that's not the case for people using traditional Chinese. That means, maybe you judge on a ill-formated traditional Chinese publication based on your own standards, not the standards used by the people who really use the language and read the publication in their daily life.
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I use Traditional Chinese and so does the rest of the island around me. Virtually all modern professional publication uses typographic rules for Chinese. There are exceptions to this in just about every country and language, but again the constructs and methods exist.
Just because the average Joe does not know anything about it or care does not make typography any less valid. Japan has been infinitely more progressive than the Chinese world in terms of typography, but it is a feature of good Chinese printing (and that includes Traditional Chinese) today to be typeset by conventions that have been in place for some time.
I'm not sure I understand why you even contribute to this thread though, since you just seem to resist typographic conventions on the extremely flawed logic of "Traditional Chinese users don't use it".