- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 17:42:37 -0400
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
fantasai scripsit: [new sub-topic of vertical text] I read your UTN 22 with great interest and appreciation. It seems to me, though, that Ogham is not really a vertical script in the sense of the UTN, but rather a horizontal script that is often written vertically. Monumental Ogham on a single stone is always written btt, it's true. But when inscribed on an arch, it goes btt up the left side of the arch, ltr across the top (same as manuscript Ogham) and then ttb down the right side of the arch -- exactly what a Latin inscription would do. Therefore, if there were Chinese embedded in the Ogham, it would need to use the bidi algorithm on the left side to combine btt Ogham with ttb Chinese, but on the right side there would be no bidi; both the Ogham and the Chinese are ttb. > ~fantasai > -- If you understand, John Cowan things are just as they are; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan if you do not understand, cowan@ccil.org things are just as they are.
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