- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:41:21 -0000
- To: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
> From: Michael Hamm [SMTP:MHamm@gc.cuny.edu] > > The Direction property (CSS2) allows only for 'rtl' and 'ltr' values. I [DJW:] The direction should normally be left to the Unicode algorithm, so use of these should be exceptional. > believe Chinese is written from top down (although I may well be mistaken; [DJW:] Traditinally it is written from top to bottom, I think within right to left, although modern usage can allow left to right within top to bottom. However, the whole CSS block rendering model is based on horizontal lines, so I don't think that you could get away with this change without a complete rework. > in any event, I'm fairly certain *some* language(s) are written from top > down). It would therefore be prudent to add a 'ttb' (top-to-bottom) > value, [DJW:] Some ancient languages are written left to right and right to left on alternate lines (boustrophon). I think the characters are mirrored on the alternate lines. -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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