Re: vertical-lr and sideways-left

Richard Ishida scripsit:

> I actually think that what we are looking at in the image is
> bottom-to-top-lr writing mode (bt-lr), where the text naturally starts
> at the bottom of the cell and travels upwards in leftwards orientation,
> then breaks at the top of the cell onto the next line and simply
> continues.

Exactly.  And that's the same use case as Ogham-on-stone, except that
there's never more than a single line of that (if there is more, it
goes LTR over the top of the stone and then down the other side).

> I think that trying to do the example in the image with
> writing-mode:vertical-lr and text-orientation:sideways-left is a hack.

But what's the alternative?

> PS: Btw, there seems to be a problem for extending the value names in
> the future now that we adopted the vertical-xx naming rather than the
> original tb-xx.  If we want to implement bottom to top support (bt-lr in
> IE) what would we call that? vertical-bt-lr?

Indeed.

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Received on Wednesday, 27 May 2015 18:58:06 UTC