RE: [css-fonts] Is it possible to select a vertical variant in a font?

Ken, thank you again for your prompt and great reply.

I found most of OpenType features are listed there. Thank you again for the link.

Will you also please tell me how I can propose to add, say, "font-variant-vertical" property?

As you pointed out, vertical variant could be a little different from other OT features, as it is required to turn on automatically in vertical text flow. But in some rare cases, I would like to turn it on regardless of the current flow. Since it's one of the font features as you explained to me, "font-variant-*" looks the best place to add to me.

Do you think this is a reasonable request? Since I'm still very new to this ML, I would appreciate to know how I can make the discussion progress and propose the addition of this property.

Thank you for your help, and thank you for your continued support for me in advance.


Regards,
Koji Ishii

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Lunde [mailto:lunde@adobe.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:38 PM
To: Ishii Koji
Cc: John Hudson; John Daggett; www-style@w3.org; David Lemon
Subject: Re: [css-fonts] Is it possible to select a vertical variant in a font?

Ishii-san,

Any vertical layout of CJK text requires vertical substitution to take place, so I would imagine that CSS3 would be the best vehicle for adding such support, given that support for other OpenType features is included. See:

  http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text-layout/
  http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/

Any CJK text that is set vertically, and without vertical substitution applied, is disfunctional. It is a requirement for most punctuation, some symbols, and for small kana, but I am sure that you already know this. :-)

Regards...

-- Ken

On 2010/06/16, at 21:30, Ishii Koji wrote:

> Hi Ken, thank you for your kind response.
> 
> I can't apply 'vert' GSUB feature in CSS though, can I? I understand how to do it in Win32 API. I understand it's doable by GSUB feature in TrueType. This time, I'm looking for the way to use that from HTML or CSS.
> 
> Assuming there's no path to use the feature from CSS, do you think it's possible to consider for future additions to CSS font module?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Koji Ishii
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Lunde [mailto:lunde@adobe.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:02 PM
> To: Ishii Koji
> Cc: John Hudson; John Daggett; www-style@w3.org; David Lemon
> Subject: Re: [css-fonts] Is it possible to select a vertical variant in a font?
> 
> Ishii-san,
> 
> I think that you simply need to apply the 'vert' GSUB feature. If a glyph has a vertical variant, the substitution will take place. If not, such as for the standard (aka, not small) kana and kanji, then the glyphs will be passed through as-is. If you want to include the pre-rotated (rotated 90 degrees clockwise) Latin glyphs, then apply the 'vrt2' GSUB feature instead. See Table 7-12 (attached) from page 494 of "CJKV Information Processing" Second Edition, specifically the "90 degrees clockwise" and "As is" columns.
> 
> Regards...
> 
> -- Ken
>

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