Re: Styling vertical text, initial article and interactive tests

Will this page be looking at the Irish Ogham as test cases? 
There are some archival projects on the Web where having accurate representation in a vertical format in Unicode could be beneficial.

Best

Elizabeth Pyatt


> On May 26, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> On 26/05/2015 14:32, Richard Ishida wrote:
>> fyi, as mentioned on the telecon last Thursday, i have started work on
>> an article that
>> 
>> 1. explains how to style essentials for vertical text using the CSS
>> writing-modes standard
>> 
>> 2. shows workarounds that are needed for that support which is currently
>> available in browsers (eg. vendor prefixes, avoiding certain tags, etc.)
>> 
>> 3. lists issues for major browsers that need to be fixed.
>> 
>> the article comes with a set of pages that allow users to interactively
>> test the effect of various CSS declarations on chinese and mongolian
>> text. These are linked to from the top of the article, and are very
>> useful in their own right.
>> 
>> please note that this is still a *very* early version, and I'm learning
>> as i go. I will be developing it gradually as time goes on.
> 
> and the missing link is:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/International/articles/vertical-text/
> 
> ri
> 
> 

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