Re: Styling vertical text, initial article and interactive tests

Elizabeth J. Pyatt scripsit:

> 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.

Ogham is normally transcribed (or written on a MS ab origine) like
Latin: horizontal and left-to-right.  For that matter, when Latin
is inscribed on a monumental arch, it too is written bottom to top,
then horizontally, then top to bottom, with appropriate letter
rotation.

Richard:  It seems to me that the main use of sideways-left is when
you want non-vertical text to appear vertically bottom-up, as on the
spine of a German book, an arch as described above, or a caption
placed to the left of a table (often in a column that spans all the
rows).  A right-side caption, per contra, needs to be written
top-down and sideways-right.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled,
maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous
flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the
detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and
absurdly the gigantic tenebrous ultimate gods --the blind, voiceless,
mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep. (Lovecraft)

Received on Tuesday, 26 May 2015 16:56:22 UTC