The underline in Korean vertical writing should be on right side according to The National Institute of the Korean Language[1]. So the current draft is right. [1] http://stdweb2.korean.go.kr/search/View.jsp?idx=391144 On 26 January 2011 13:46, Sangwhan Moon <sangwhan.moon@hanmail.net> wrote: > On 1/24/2011 12:21 PM, Koji Ishii wrote: > >> I took two pictures in Korean town in Tokyo and wanted to share. >> >> [1] must be an ancient document, I have no idea if you want to publish >> documents like this in digital books though. >> >> [2] is more interesting. Although it may look just like printing upright >> English letters in vertical flow, it wraps and lines flow from right to left >> just like Chinese/Japanese. >> >> The two pictures may be too special to consider as regular typography, but >> I just want to remind you that CSS could extend its coverage to more than >> Web. Digital books is one of the possibilities. You may also want to export >> Adobe Illustrator graphics to SVG, and SVG will inherit CSS properties. >> >> If you don't need vertical text flow after considering more than Web and >> modern documents, I'm fine with it, but I just wanted to give you a gentle >> reminder. >> >> [1] http://www.gluesoft.co.jp/user/kojiishi/2011/IMG_0152.jpg >> [2] http://www.gluesoft.co.jp/user/kojiishi/2011/IMG_0159.jpg >> >> >> Regards, >> Koji >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Koji Ishii >> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 4:35 PM >> To: Channy Yun >> Cc: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu; HTML Korean Interest Group; ML public-i18n-core; >> fantasai >> Subject: Re: Korean-specific CSS issues to be discussed >> >> 1. CSS vertical >>> Actually it has disappeared the Korean vertical typesetting since >>> 1999. Now there are only type setting from left to right in Korea. So >>> I think Korea is exceptional case from CJK. >>> >> Just from curiosity. When you want to publish old books written in >> vertical flow in EPUB, are you going to publish them in horizontal flow? >> >> >> Regards, >> Koji >> >> >> > -- Hyeonseok.com, 010-5296-0309 Opera Software, Web Evangelist & QA Engineer
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