Re: [css-writing-modes-3] Figure 6: rotated sideways and oriented upright

Le 2014-08-12 03:04, Glenn Adams a écrit :
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> "Latin words can be rotated sideways, or each letter can be oriented
>> upright (...) Figure 6. Examples of Latin in vertical Japanese:"
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/#vertical-intro
>> 
>> I am a bit unsure...
>> 
>> In the example of Figure 6,
>> 1) am I correct when thinking that the word Virus is "oriented 
>> upright"?
>> 2) am I correct when thinking that DNA and RNA abbreviations are 
>> "rotated
>> sideways"?
> 
> 
> just the opposite
> 
> 

Glenn,

Thank you for your quick reply. You are correct.

Figure 13 (in section 5.1)

http://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/#fig-text-orientation

makes this clear.

Gérard

>> 
>> 
>> Gérard
>> 
>> 

Received on Thursday, 14 August 2014 01:17:58 UTC