Hello Richard, others,
On 2019/02/08 00:37, r12a wrote:
https://www.w3.org/2019/02/07-i18n-minutes.html
richard: actually vertical text with 1 character per column is
really an urban myth
I'm not sure about this. When you see 門生羅 (and not 羅生門, as it would be
with LTR) at the top of a gate, the easiest way to explain why the
characters are placed the way they are is that whoever wanted to write
them was used to writing vertical lines (i.e. columns), with the columns
going from right to left, but only was able to fit one character per
'line' (i.e. column).
Of course, this was done rather implicitly and without calling each
character a column. And we cannot go back to the people who wrote the
name of a door on the top of a door in ancient times, but it's the best
explanation we have so far. If you have a better one, I'd like to hear
about it.
... it's nonsensical
It may be nonsensical (or not) as an approach to how to format it with
CSS. It may also not apply to more 'modern' Chinese examples, in
particular from Taiwan, where I think multiple-line RTL headings can
also appear.
Regards, Martin.
... horizontal-tbrl was suggested
... but that is inconsistent with writing modes
... key issue is that japanese/chinese are strongly LTR
... UBA relies on character properties
... thinking is to use bidi override with direction=rtl
... embedded numbers/text in <bdo>
... but very similar to "close wrapping" recommendation we do
for normal bidi text