From: Andrew C. West (andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 10:51:46 CDT
I think you may have misunderstood me. I'm now suggesting that perhaps Ogham
shouldn't be rendered bottom-to-top when embedded in vertical text such as
Mongolian, but top-to-bottom as is the case with other LTR scripts such as
Latin, as shown in the attached screen shot from an HTML page, where the
embedded Ogham and Latin text both read LTR down the page if you tilt your head
sideways. I don't know whether you're happy reading Latin text as displayed in
this example, but this is the normal way of embedding short sections of Latin
script (e.g. proper names) in vertical text, and I don't know of any better way
to deal with embedding horizontal scripts in vertical text.
Likewise, when you embed Mongolian in horizontal text (which is also quite
common), you have to tilt your head sideways to read the Mongolian. I don't
think there's any way round the head-tilting business when mixing vertical and
horizontal scripts. Note that I'm talking about embedding single words or short
phrases in text with a different orientation. Of course for long passages of
both vertical and horizontal text, each script should be laid out in separate
vertical and horizontal blocks.
Andrew
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