- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 01:15:25 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Cc: WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
Koji Ishii wrote: > The spec says: > > # When combining text as for Œtext-combine-horizontal: all¹, the glyphs > # of the combined text are composed horizontally (ignoring > # Œletter-spacing¹ and any forced line breaks, but using the specified > # font settings), similar to the contents of an inline-box with a > # horizontal writing mode and a line-height of 1em. > > And text-orientation says: > > # Current values only have an effect in vertical writing modes; the > # property has no effect on elements in horizontal writing modes. > > So glyphs should appear in upright. > > Do you think we need to add more clarification? Yes. The spec says how they are *composed* but doesn't indicate the orientation of the resulting formation. From an authoring model point of view, the resulting composition becomes an upright glyph within a vertical run. It should remain that way independent of the value of the 'text-orientation' property. I guess you could define it by saying that tatechuyoko runs are some mini horizontal writing submode but I think it's simpler just to say it's upright and the value of text-orientation doesn't affect it's orientation. Funky smart quotes by the way, nice effect! Cheers, John Daggett
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