- From: Pierre-Anthony Lemieux <pal@sandflow.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 16:10:30 -0800
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Momdo Nakamura <xmomdo@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Hi fantasai, > 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 I have filed https://github.com/w3c/ttml2/issues/240 > Haven't gotten any use-case-backed requests yet, though. Can you provide (privately if you prefer) what the WG considers a "use-case-backed request"? Thanks, -- Pierre On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:03 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > 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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