- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:46:49 +0100
- To: Michael Hamm <MHamm@gc.cuny.edu>
- CC: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
Michael Hamm wrote: > > The Direction property (CSS2) allows only for 'rtl' and 'ltr' values. I > believe Chinese is written from top down (although I may well be mistaken; You are correct. > in any event, I'm fairly certain *some* language(s) are written from top > down). Yes, including Japanese, etc. > It would therefore be prudent to add a 'ttb' (top-to-bottom) value, > and a Secondary-direction property indicating which way the lines should be > ordered. (E.g., in top-down writing, should the first line be at the right > or the left of the screen?) Adding support fro vetrtical writing is indeed a priority, butis not quite as simple as this. However, CSS3 is intended to allow vertical, horizontal, and mixed writing. -- Chris
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