湖南读者徐咏怀同志来信说:我喜爱《当代》,不仅由于它的内容充实,就是在编排格式上,也有自己的特点,比较严谨讲究。例如,不论哪一期,都没出现过一篇文章“下转”或“上接”的现象,这就给读者带来阅读上的很大方便。再如,我做过比较,它的版面比一般的刊物,每面老五号字多三行,新五号字多四行。这样,整个算下来,每期能 Comrade Xu Yonghuai, a Hunan reader, wrote from a letter: “I like the” contemporary “not only because of its content but also its own characteristics and strictness in its layout. For example, no article appeared in any period, ”“ or ”on the next" phenomenon, which gives the reader a great convenience of reading. Again, I have done a comparison, its layout than the average publication, each old five characters more than three lines, the new five characters more than four lines. In this way, the whole count, each period can