Re: [css3-writing-modes] A report from a meeting w/Japanese publishing group from John Daggett on 2012-01-16 (www-style@w3.org from January 2012)

From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:06:58 -0800 (PST)
To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
Cc: MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>, www-style@w3.org, Brady Duga <duga@ljug.com>, koba <koba@antenna.co.jp>
Message-ID: <4d261315-4fca-44de-b6d0-467c63563136@zimbra1.shared.sjc1.mozilla.com>

Koji Ishii wrote:

> The Writing Modes module defines two things:
> 
> 1. The default orientation of each code point
> 
> 2. How authors can change its default orientation by applying styles
> 
> We’re trying to solve 2 nd issue in CSS Writing Modes, and 1 st
> issue in Unicode. 

I agree this is the right approach.  However, as written, this is not
what the current editor's draft defines, as noted previously it's
using a combination of per-script definitions (Appendix B) and UTR50
for the common/inherited/unknown case.

Regards,

John Daggett

Received on Monday, 16 January 2012 08:07:41 UTC