Re: Western vertical texts

On 03/01/2012 09:36 PM, Koji Ishii wrote:
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> I also wonder how good "always use 1em height" is for Latin upright text.

It's not very good. It's even worse when you use lowercase letters.

Anecdote: I used to think Latin looked horrible when typeset upright
with lower-case letters. Then someone in Japan hand-wrote my name in
vertical upright, and it looked perfectly reasonable--because the
spacing between letters was properly adjusted.

~fantasai