- From: koba <koba@antenna.co.jp>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:48:09 +0900
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>
> > In vertical text, the element below appears rotated: > > <span>Hotel Wonderland</span> > > In vertical text, the element below appears upright: > > <span style="text-orientation: upright">Hotel Wonderland</span> > > But I can definitely see how reading the current CSS3 Writing Modes > spec could lead you to see things as you do, I definitely think the > explanation could be clearer. <span>Hotel Wonderland</span> is same as <span style="text-orientation: upright-right">Hotel Wonderland</span> Then, " In vertical writing modes, characters from horizontal-only scripts are set sideways, i.e. 90° clockwise from their standard orientation in horizontal text. Characters from vertical scripts are set with their intrinsic orientation." horizontal-only "Scripts that have horizontal, but not vertical, native orientation. Includes: Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari " Latin alphabet belongs to horizontal-only scrips, the direction is set as sideways. You need not to define the direction of latin alphabet by UTR#50, althogh you have to define horizontal-only scrips more precisely. Regards, Tokushige Kobayashi -- koba <koba@antenna.co.jp> http://www.antenna.co.jp http://www.cas-ub.com http://blog.cas-ub.com twitter @TokKoba
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