Re: [css3-writing-modes] eliminate 'sideways' and 'sideways-left' for 'text-orientation'

• From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:45:55 -0400
• To: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <54185B33.7050003@inkedblade.net>

On 09/15/2014 09:30 PM, John Daggett wrote:
>
> fantasai wrote:
>
>>> I continue to think that the behavior of 'sideways' is unnecessary
>>> here and the fact that you have three property values here will
>>> cause author confusion. But the table cell case you and Gérard have
>>> pointed out makes sense so I'll relent here.
>>
>> 'sideways' is automatic so that horizontal-script authors don't
>> have to think about which direction they rotated the block.
>> You just set
>>     'text-orientation: sideways'
>> on the root element and forget about it.
>
> Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by "which direction they
> rotated the block". Are you talking about which writing mode they
> set on a given table header (i.e. vertical-rl vs. vertical-lr)?

Yes. (From an English-language perspective, there isn't "vertical writing",
there's just rotated text...)

~fantasai

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