Re: [css3-writing-modes] text-orientation property

On 11/15/2010 11:33 PM, John Daggett wrote:
>
>> Name:  text-orientation
>> Value:  vertical-right | upright | rotate-right | rotate-left | rotate-normal | auto
>> Initial:  vertical-right
>
> Rather than use 'auto' for SVG backwards compatibility, it might be
> nicer to define 'auto' as what is called 'rotate-normal' and make
> that the default.

I don't think it's a good default, because 'rotate-normal' lays out
ideographic characters sideways.

> What exactly is the difference betwee 'vertical-right' and
> 'rotate-right'?  The first applies to non-ideographic characters only,
> the second applies to all?

rotate-* ends up laying out text exactly as if it were in a horizontal
page, except graphically rotated 90deg.

vertical-right does the "right thing" for vertical scripts.

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 16 November 2010 08:12:58 UTC