- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:42:33 -0500
- To: Vincent Hardy <vhardy@adobe.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org CSS" <www-style@w3.org>
On Aug 11, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Vincent Hardy wrote: > Hi Davd, > > On 8/11/11 9:25 AM, "David Hyatt" <hyatt@apple.com> wrote: > >> What are the initial writing mode and directionality of flows? Can >> individual regions specify different writing-modes and directionality, >> thus causing how you paginate to vary from region to region in the same >> flow? I'm really hoping the answer is "No", and that - as with printing >> and multi-column elements - there is a single master writing mode and >> directionality that determines all of the pagination. > > Yes, that is what it would be. In the new draft that is in the works, the > model is sticking to be very close (as much as possible and makes sense) > to pagination and multi-column. > >> >> My suggestion would be to use the writing-mode and directionality of the >> first region to establish the pagination direction and to just ignore the >> writing-mode/directionality set on subsequent regions. Another idea would >> be to simply use the ICB's writing-mode and direction. > > This is missing from the spec. currently, I'll add an action item to add > something about the writing-mode direction. A third idea would be to support styling a pseudo-element for the named flow. ::flow(myflow) { writing-mode: vertical-rl; } Probably a bit silly to create a pseudo-element just to style the writing-mode / direction though. I kind of like the "use the first region" heuristic, but I'm curious what others think. dave (hyatt@apple.com)
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