- From: <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 14:57:39 -0400
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: "Florian Rivoal" <florian@rivoal.net>, "Koji Ishii" <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, "fantasai (fantasai@inkedblade.net)" <fantasai@inkedblade.net>, "www International" <www-international@w3.org>
Richard Ishida scripsit:
> I actually think that what we are looking at in the image is
> bottom-to-top-lr writing mode (bt-lr), where the text naturally starts
> at the bottom of the cell and travels upwards in leftwards orientation,
> then breaks at the top of the cell onto the next line and simply
> continues.
Exactly. And that's the same use case as Ogham-on-stone, except that
there's never more than a single line of that (if there is more, it
goes LTR over the top of the stone and then down the other side).
> I think that trying to do the example in the image with
> writing-mode:vertical-lr and text-orientation:sideways-left is a hack.
But what's the alternative?
> PS: Btw, there seems to be a problem for extending the value names in
> the future now that we adopted the vertical-xx naming rather than the
> original tb-xx. If we want to implement bottom to top support (bt-lr in
> IE) what would we call that? vertical-bt-lr?
Indeed.
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