- From: John Hudson <john@tiro.ca>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 10:23:45 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 04/05/17 07:39, fantasai wrote: > Mongolian needs to be rotated sideways, however, because that's how > current > font technology works IIRC. Correct. Mongolian fonts are designed with glyphs pre-rotated 90° counter-clockwise, and the layout model used is horizontal. For correct vertical display of the script, the lines of text need to be rotated 90° clockwise *and ordered from left to right*. The last bit is where a lot of software seems to fail. It's easy to typeset a block of LTR horizontal text and rotate it 90° CW, but then the lines are ordered right to left. J. -- John Hudson Tiro Typeworks Ltd www.tiro.com Salish Sea, BC tiro@tiro.com NOTE: In the interests of productivity, I am currently dealing with email on only two days per week, usually Monday and Thursday unless this schedule is disrupted by travel. If you need to contact me urgently, please use some other method of communication. Thank you.
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