- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:26:21 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>, \"Martin J. Dürst\ <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
> > Sorry to jump into this discussion without potentially understanding all
> > the details, but while it is to a large extent possible e.g. in Japanese
> > to switch from horizontal to vertical just by switching styling, there
> > are some aspects of this switch that need more work. A typical example
> > is that in horizontal text, you may use Arabic numerals (0123...),
> > whereas in vertical text, Kanji numbers (〇一二三...) may be preferred.
>
> That's an interesting use case which can be handled by the above code.
> For example, you could have:
>
> <span class=arabic>0123</span><span class=kanji>〇一二三</span>
>
> horizonal.css:
>
> .kanji { display: none }
>
> vertical.css:
>
> .arabic { display: none }
Might be better to define 'chinese-numerals' as a value for
'text-transform', which transforms u+030-039 to the appropriate chinese
numeral characters. Then you would simply have:
horizonal.css:
.number { text-transform: none; }
vertical.css:
.number { text-transform: chinese-numerals; }
The ability to have different stylesheets for different writing modes
provides authors more options for styling content.
John Daggett
Received on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 08:27:03 UTC