- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:18:33 +0200
- To: "www-style@w3.org Style" <www-style@w3.org>
John Daggett: > we both agreed that it would be good to have a simple property defined for all Unicode codepoints that allowed us to determine whether a character was upright by default or not. Isn’t that something Fantasai proposed in 2005 (albeit referencing a now outdated CSS draft)? <http://unicode.org/notes/tn22/RobustVerticalLayout.pdf?page=25> Instead of glyph transformation (‘translate’ or ‘rotate’), one could specify glyph directionality, an inherent property, as – either ‘planar’ / ‘absolute’ (like north, east, south, west), i.e. the opposite of block progression (which is the progression of lines), – or ‘linear’ / ‘relative’ (like top/up, right[wards], bottom/down, left[wards]), i.e. orthogonal to inline progression (which is the progression of glyphs).
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