- From: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:55:04 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
On 4/7/15 19:21, fantasai wrote: > Thinking about this some more, though, I think what we can do > is move *both* orientations into the writing-mode, like this: > > writing-mode: horizontal-tb | vertical-rl | vertical-lr | sideways-rl > | sideways-lr; > text-orientation: mixed | upright | sideways (or sideways-rl) > > This preserves symmetry, and actually makes it even easier for > horizontal-script authors to get the two most common behaviors. > They no longer need to use 'text-orientation' unless they want, > specifically, upright text. So we have these cases then: > > Vertical Script Use Cases: > > Chinese, Japanese, Korean > writing-mode: vertical-rl; > + text-orientation: sideways | upright for inline tweaking > Mongolian > writing-mode: vertical-lr; > + text-orientation: sideways | upright for inline tweaking > > Horizontal Script Use Cases: > > Clockwise > writing-mode: sideways-rl; > Counter-clockwise > writing-mode: sideways-lr; > Upright LTR > writing-mode: vertical-lr; > text-orientation: upright; > Upright RTL > writing-mode: vertical-rl; > text-orientation: upright; > > * We would probably disable the 'svrt' feature for the sideways > writing modes, only enable it for vertical writing modes with > sideways text orientation. What is this 'svrt' feature of which you speak? I don't see it listed at https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/featurelist.htm, nor mentioned in http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-writing-modes-3/. What am I missing? JK
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