From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2007 - 19:39:41 CST
Andrew West wrote:
> From a font's perspective there is no difference
> between horizontal layout and vertical (i.e. rotated horizontal)
> layout.
Which is what has been questioned by some people. I personally think using a 'rotated
horizontal' layout model for scripts like Mongolian is fine: I was just explaining what I
understand to be the (possibly impractical) option. It seems to rub some people the wrong
way that the glyphs for a vertical script are not vertical, but perhaps they are
encountering text in applications that fail to display the text runs rotated, and hence
are seeing it as horizontal and blaming the font.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Gulf Islands, BC tiro@tiro.com I'm like that Umberto Eco guy, but without the writing. -- anonymous caller
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