- From: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:38:56 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
On 16/9/14 16:45, fantasai wrote: > 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...) ...except for occasional use of vertical writing with text-orientation:upright, most commonly seen in signage: https://www.flickr.com/groups/stackedtype/ :) JK
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