Re: [clreq] Please review: 3.1.3.3 Locale specified rules for punctuations

@bobbytung i just took a closer look at the section, and here are some notes for you or for the person who translated to English.

[1]
perhaps the class=checkme should now be removed from the section tag?

[2]
> Publications in Mainland China rarely use vertical writing mode. But there are still ancient books in Traditional Chinese and some books in Simplified Chinese that utilise vertical writing mode.

 Are we talking about ancient books specifically in Mainland China here?  It's not clear from the text. It might help to change the full stop before 'But' to a comma and say 'there are still ancient books there in'.

I wasn't completely sure whether we are talking about typesetting of old books in Mainland China (which were presumably in TC) as well as modern text that is vertically set (given the emphasis on region being important, rather than SC/TC).  Could you clarify that for me?

[3] 
> For such books, punctuation layout should follow the rules in General Rules for Punctuation (GB/T 15834-2011). The rules should be applied based on place of publication, not based on whether the content is Traditional/Simplified Chinese.

It would be useful to have a link on the GRP title. However, i'm not clear what those rules are: are they the rules we describe in this document?  It sounds to me from the following sentence like the GPR contains different rules for different regions. Is that correct?

[4] 
> Rules differing from Simplified Chinese punctuation are as follows:

I'm a bit unclear here. Are you describing how rules for vertical text in SC are different from those for horizontal text in SC as described in this document? If so, that seems to indicate that the sentence:

> Rules identical to Traditional Chinese punctuation are as follows:

might be clearer if it said:

"Rules for vertical text in Mainland China that are identical to the rules for vertical Traditional Chinese text as described in this document."

If i understood correctly, it would probably make it much clearer for the reader to change the title of the subsection to "Region-specific punctuation rules for vertical text in Mainland China".  

hope that helps

-- 
GitHub Notification of comment by r12a
Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/clreq/issues/177#issuecomment-394426445 using your GitHub account

Received on Monday, 4 June 2018 17:00:25 UTC