Re: [css-writing-modes-3] [css-inline-3] Need for new Ahem font version with addition of 1 glyph with Vertical_Orientation property set to U

On 07/27/2016 02:42 AM, Myles C. Maxfield wrote:
>> We need to create a new version of Ahem font
>
> I’m happy to do this. I can probably have it done pretty soon, too.

Wonderful!

I think the glyphs we need are:

1. Copy the 'X' glyph (1em black square) to the following characters:
       一二三四五六七八九十〇囗火水木金土
       U+4E00 U+4E8C U+4E09 U+56DB U+4E94 U+516D U+4E03 U+516B U+4E5D
       U+5341 U+3007 U+56D7 U+706B U+6C34 U+6728 U+91D1 U+571F
    This will allow for basic tests to be constructed with upright CJK codepoints.

    (We could probably get away with just 水 and 囗, but I figure we may as well
    go with all the digits, a square-like glyph, and the five elements.)

2. Create a glyph that is a 20% centered vertical stripe and another that's a
    20% centered horizontal stripe, both within a 1em square advance.

    Assign the horizontal stripe to
      'Χ'  U+03A7
      '横' U+6A2A
    and the vertical one to
      'Υ'  U+03A5
      '纵' U+7EB5

    This will make it easy to create CSS tests for upright/sideways orientation.

    (The comprehensive testing of TR50 data would need to be done with a much
    bigger font, one with a different design than Ahem. But this will help us
    for the CSS aspects of orientation.)

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 27 July 2016 21:40:34 UTC