- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 19:03:47 -0500
- To: Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com>
- Cc: Momdo Nakamura <xmomdo@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 02/03/2017 10:58 AM, Pierre-Anthony Lemieux wrote: > Hi fantasai, > > Thanks for the feedback! > >> 'over' and 'under' also take into account the 'writing-mode', except they do so in a way that handles Mongolian better. > > Ok. I can file an issue against TTML2. Any additional detail on > "handles Mongolian better"? [ed.: I am not a Mongolian expert] The key thing to realize is that the "before" side and the "over" side do not coincide in Mongolian writing. See https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/#text-flow >> The case of "only two lines" isn't really a significant consideration in CSS-based documents. :) > > Unless the document to which CSS is applied is contains captions > and/or subtitles, right? Wouldn't that be the case for WebVTT or TTML > when rendered on the web platform? If there's a demand for it on the CSS side, seems entirely reasonable to add it. Haven't gotten any use-case-backed requests yet, though. ~fantasai
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