Re: Shaping characters in upright orientation in vertical text flow

Phillips, Addison scripsit:

> 1. The thing being shaped "upright" should be a grapheme cluster. Note
> that this may not be a *default* grapheme cluster.
> 
> 2. Upright should *mean* upright. It may not be a good idea to apply
> it to, for example, Arabic text, but what's the point of a style
> if it doesn't do what you ask it too? 

But what are you asking for?  Arguably a (non-default) grapheme cluster
in Arabic is any number of letters up to a non-joining or right-joining
character, inclusive.  That would just look silly in vertical mode.

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