- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 00:03:35 -0400
- To: John Hudson <john@tiro.ca>, www-style@w3.org
On 05/04/2017 01:23 PM, John Hudson wrote: > On 04/05/17 07:39, fantasai wrote: > >> Mongolian needs to be rotated sideways, however, because that's how current >> font technology works IIRC. > > Correct. Mongolian fonts are designed with glyphs pre-rotated 90° counter-clockwise, and the layout model used is horizontal. > For correct vertical display of the script, the lines of text need to be rotated 90° clockwise *and ordered from left to > right*. The last bit is where a lot of software seems to fail. It's easy to typeset a block of LTR horizontal text and rotate > it 90° CW, but then the lines are ordered right to left. Luckily the line ordering is entirely under control of the CSS engine, so that part is covered correctly by 'writing-mode'. :) ~fantasai
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