- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 23:08:20 -0700
- To: MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:36 PM, MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp> wrote: >> > CSS Text Layout Module Level 3 >> > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text-layout/ > > The issue about 'block-flow' value tb/rl/lr/bt, it says: > "Would downward/leftward/rightward/upward be better value names?" > > I think tb/rl/lr/bt should not be changed. These are consistent with > the shorthand property 'writing-mode' value lr-tb, tb-rl, etc. > Note that the 'writing-mode' is not only used in CSS but also in > other W3C specs, XSL-FO and SVG, we should not change the its values. > > 2nd reason: In Japanese, the terms "左横書き" (hidari-yoko-gaki = > left-horizontal-writing) and "右縦書き" (migi-tate-gaki = > right-vertical-writing) etc. are used. Here "right-" means right-to-left > but the term "rightward" is easily confused with it, at least for Japanese > like me :-) I like the tb/rl/etc as well, simply because it's really easy for me to see exactly how it works that way. ~TJ
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