Re: [jlreq] Example of central-baseline alignment of sideways-ed Latin glyphs within a vertical Japanese line box (#246)

> The jutting into interlinear space is showing how gridding in J layout is needed to keep the line leading (as measured from the line centers) constant even in the face of larger sized text. 

Yes. Agreed. But the example in [figure 301](https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/#fig3_5_1) makes this barely noticeable: it is not easy to see in the example-image.

My request in this issue is to have an example of sideways-ed Latin text within a vertical Japanese line box in the "Requirements for Japanese Text Layout" document.


> we need a system whereby the markup could specify which script (set of metrics and behaviors) is dominant, so all scripts in the line follow the rules of the dominant system.
(...) such a mode in CSS doesn't exist, at least in the way I was trying to describe.

Such system exists in CSS. [CSS3 Writing-modes, section 4.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/#text-baselines)
"In vertical typographic mode, the central baseline is used as the dominant baseline when 'text-orientation' is 'mixed'" 
In horizontal typographic mode, the alphabetic baseline is used as the dominant baseline. And the typographic mode is given by 'writing-mode'
[CSS Writing Modes 3, section 3.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/#block-flow)
[CSS Writing-Modes 4, section 3.2](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-4/#block-flow)

Also, [dominant-baseline property](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-inline-3/#dominant-baseline-property) when implemented will allow web authors to specify 'hanging' or 'ideographic' if that is what they want.

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