Re: CSS3 Text - Edit suggestions

fantasai scripsit:

> >In both our vertical modes (rl and lr), the baseline is rotated the 
> >same way, isn't it? So 'left' is always top and 'right' always bottom. 
> >Maybe it is useful to add that as a note: "(I.e., text is aligned at 
> >the bottom.)"
> 
> This is true by default, but it may not be true for specific values
> of glyph-orientation: rotating glyphs rotates their baseline.
> glyph-orientation can make glyphs stand upright in a column, but it
> can also turn the line 180deg to face the other way.

Just so.  For example, Mongolian (strongly top-to-bottom) is rotated
clockwise to embed it in Arabic script, but counterclockwise to
embed it in Cyrillic or Latin script.

Spell it out:  "In vertical mode, 'left' means 'top' and 'right'
means 'bottom'"

(If indeed this is true: is it true of vertical Ogham, which the
Unicode Standard (wrongly, in my view) says is strongly bottom-to-top?)

> How is 'line-height' biased towards horizontal text?

Is not the line-height of vertical text in fact a horizontally measured
distance?

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