- From: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:19:31 -0400
- To: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>, Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> >On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:32:51 +0900, fantasai > ><fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > > > >> For the various pictographic and geometric symbols, what is an > >> appropriate setting? Should the snowman be upright or sideways? > >> Does this depend on CJK vs. Latin context, or is it a stylistic > >> preference, or does everybody just want them upright? > > > >I have a hard time thinking of anybody wanting them other than upright. > > I disagree. > > I think it depends on CJK vs. Latin context for sure. > > If I've got a string of Latin talking about winter and snowmen and stick > one in the middle of the Latin text which is rotated 90 degrees, I'd expect > the snowman to take on the rotation of the Latin content so it can be read > with your head rotated sideways. Latin text will use text-orientation: sideways-right or sideways-left[1], and in that case, every characters are rotated sideways as you wished. The original question was when author specified text-orientation: vertical-right, which is the value for vertical scripts such as CJK, so I think what Florian said stands. [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#text-orientation Regards, Koji
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