Re: [css3-writing-modes] transcript of text orientation discussion

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:21 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:

>
> [jdaggett]
> Right, but I just don't see the need, bidi has nesting behavior does it
> not?
>

I would expect that the resolution of text orientation should be nestable in
a manner similar to bidi nesting.


> [stevez]
> And there's one final one, which is I don't think shaped scripts should
> ever be upright.
>

Mongolian script is shaped and upright (vertical), if I understand Steve's
comment correctly. One may also embed (rotated) Arabic script in Mongolian
(and vice versa).