Re: vertical direction control

From: Thomas Kuehne (thomas@kuehne.cn)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 17:38:41 EST

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Am 2004-03-23 21:57 schrieb Ernest Cline:
> I suppose one could use the ECMA-48 / ISO 6429
> SPD (Select Presentation Direction) control sequence, but that
> is hardly plain text, altho it isn't quite markup either.

After having a glimpse on ECMA-48(Control Functions for Coded
Character Sets) I am not sure how this concept would interact with
the bidi algorithm - especially if glyphs should be mirrored, rotated
or "simply" reordered.

Thomas Kuehne

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