- From: Andrei Polushin <polushin@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:21:35 +0600
- To: www-style@w3.org
fantasai wrote:
> Here's the proposed mapping from current terminology to
> writing-mode-generic:
>
> Dimensions
> ----------
>
> width logical width
> height logical height
Good.
> Directions
> ----------
>
> n/a (refer to 'direction' property) inline direction
> n/a (refer to 'direction' property) block direction
Not so good: while it became a writing-mode-independent, it's still a
layout-algorithm-dependent: now it is defined in terms of flow layout.
It might be better to use "logical width/height direction", or simply
"width/height direction", because the direction of physical width/height
always remains constant.
> Sides (from LTR reference)
> --------------------------
>
> top before
> left start
> right end
> bottom after
Did you consider "logical-top" etc. instead of "before" etc.?
Those before/after/start/end is really inconvenient for authors, and
probably for Japanese authors too. I would suggest reusing the terms
from both worlds instead of introducing unusual terminology:
top logical-top japanese-left
left logical-left japanese-bottom
right logical-right japanese-top
bottom logical-bottom japanese-right
In this case, logical-top and japanese-left are full synonyms and can be
used interchangeably throughout the specifications.
--
Andrei Polushin
Received on Wednesday, 27 February 2008 10:22:35 UTC