Re: Tategaki (was: Re: Updated Compelling Unicode Demo)

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Tue Dec 25 2001 - 17:47:33 EST


At 22:26 01/12/25 +0200, $BAk]namdqor(B $BDialamt_dg(B wrote:
>* juuichiketajin@ranmamail.com [2001-12-24 04:55]:
> >
> > Also, when will we have a stylesheet code for
> > tategaki? They should not use "ideographic" in the
>
>"Tategaki" is simply vertical writing, right? Is this another word that
>should be added to the jargon of character set encoding, like
>"mojibake"? Probably not...
>
> > There should be a "tategaki-ltr" and a "tategaki-rtl",
> > depending on which line of characters is read first.
> > Which way is Mongolian?

For what's in the works for CSS3, please see
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#PrimaryTextAdvanceDirection.

For XSL (a W3C Recommendation), please see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#writing-mode.

Regards, Martin.



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