On 1 May 2012, at 13:43, suzuki toshiya wrote:
>> You cannot rotate Canadian Syllabics because when you do the letter-values change. The two examples you have shown are examples of extremely bad typographic choices.
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> OK, where I can see good examples?
I already mentioned crosswords. Otherwise, I don't know. Vertical presentation of text isn't "normal" in Canadian Syllabics (any more than it is in English, except in neon). The examples you showed were made by people who hadn't thought about what they were doing. Since Canadian Syllabics characters change their meaning when seen sideways, setting text in the way those two documents did it simply causes immediate confusion as to the legibility of the text.
As Andrew said, the examples you showed were not examples of vertical text layout. They were examples of somebody rotating a text box.
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vertical text in Canadian Syllabics should be presented. Please take my advice on this as an expert, rather than worrying about whether you can find some example made by somebody on the internet. This isn't the Wikipedia.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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