- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:58:35 +1000
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- CC: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, CJK discussion <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>
On 21/06/2012 3:24 PM, Koji Ishii wrote: >> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net] > >> Alex Mogilevsky raised an issue in a discussion awhile back: specifically, what should >> the column progression direction be if the parent of the multi-column element belongs >> to an orthogonal flow with a block flow direction opposite to the multi-col element's >> inline direction? >> >> E.g. suppose I have a vertical Japanese document: >> >> >> | | | | | V >> | | | | | V >> | | | | | V >> | | | | | | >> | | | | | | >> <==== >> >> Then I insert a horizontal (LTR) multicol element >> >>>>> -- >>>-- | | | | | V >> ----- ----- | | | | | V >> --A-- --B-- | | | | | V >> ----- ----- | | | | | | >> ----- ----- | | | | | | >> <==== >> >> Is column A or B first in the logical order? > > This is a very interesting question. I think the simple answer is "column A is first." I agree with Koji here but it makes a mess of overflow and this is why I have previously stated on this mailing list that a concept of logical block progression be introduced [1] [2]. It is only in Old Mongolian that that you don't have this conflict of inline overflow and block overflow [3]. 1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Oct/0645.html 2. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jun/0199.html 3. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jun/0756.html -- Alan Gresley http://css-3d.org/ http://css-class.com/
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