Re: Shaping characters in upright orientation in vertical text flow

> In Japanese, there is the pragmatic tradition to set longer text
> sidewise, but single letters or just a few letters upright. The
> later is called tate-chu-yoko (see
> http://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#en-subheading2_2_5) in Japanese
> typography. It may be that we can say that in these cases the style
> mechanism for tate-chu-yoko (if there is one) should be used.

The writing modes spec already includes properties for controlling tate-chu-yoko:

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#text-combine

Regards,

John Daggett

Received on Thursday, 19 January 2012 13:56:58 UTC