Re: [css3-writing-modes] A report from a meeting w/Japanese publishing group

If I can just restate the issues in a very simplified manner to see if I am
correct in my understanding of the problem:

1. In a vertical text flow, some glyphs may need to be rendered differently
then in a horizontal flow (rotated or replaced)
2. This cannot always be determined algorithmically
3. The writing modes module addresses this with styles to determine glyph
orientation
4. Currently, glyph selection is a function of the underlying font engine
(eg 'vert' gsub table in OpenType), not CSS (or Unicode)

Is item 4 the problem under discussion in the blog post? Is that the
original issue Koji raised? I apologize if these are obvious questions, I
am having a little difficulty following the discussion - the Google
Translate page of the blog post was surprisingly good, but I think some of
the important details were lost.

--Brady

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:16 AM, koba <koba@antenna.co.jp> wrote:

> Murata-san
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> > In your blog, you argue against font-independent determination.
> > I am interested in further discussions about this topic.
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> I am still making further review, and hope to make a post in Unicode
> TR#50 forum, if it will be helpful.
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> Regards,
>
> Tokushige Kobayashi
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