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We see:

書狀之記載應以中文直式橫書由左至右書寫，使用之字體、間距及墨色應適於肉眼閱讀。

and are baffled by 直式 here. Do they want us to print horizontally, or maybe either horizontally or vertically, or what? Perhaps they mean we should make straight looking characters?

And if I took out those two characters, would the sentence mean exactly the same thing?

Should I tell that Ministry they're not making sense?

Update: now that we know that those two characters are talking about paper printer choice buttons etc., how might we tell the dear Ministry a better way of writing their sentence?

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  • maybe, in legal related ‘texts”, in taiwan; the characters “的” is rarely used; next, these “legal terms” are much, much more literary chinese “styled” 🙀 Commented yesterday

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直式橫書

直式 -> portrait, for A4 paper, the bottom is 210mm, the “right / left” size is 297mm

橫書 -> horizontally writing, from left to right

from the quoted link, i strongly feel that every requirements has a behind “story” 😼

have fun :)

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  • Sahib, "書狀" 这是指书面投诉吗？ Commented yesterday
  • @PedroskiWe're talking about courtroom documents. The link is from legal.judicial.gov.tw . Commented yesterday
  • Oh dear, what have you done now? Never mind, the first ten years are the worst! Commented yesterday
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「直」 does not have the common meaning of straight here.

「直式」 in 「直式橫書」 is short for 「直向式」. 「直向」 is synonymous with 「縱向」, which means vertical, and in the context of document publishing it refers to portrait orientation (as opposed to landscape orientation).

The rule specifies that documents should be published in portrait orientation with left-to-right text. This explicit rule is sensible in Taiwan, because lots of books are published with up-to-down and right-to-left text.

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  • Ah, no wonder. I didn't "think out of the box." Commented yesterday
  • @DanJacobson I'm actually unable to find a printing/publishing definition for 直 or 直向 on a free online dictionary; it seems like this implicitly known so much among office workers that nobody questions it. This is unlike English dictionaries, which will give a printing definition for the word "portrait". How unfortunate. Commented yesterday

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