Re: [css-writing-modes] Propose writing-mode: sideways-left

On 4/7/15 19:21, fantasai wrote:
> Thinking about this some more, though, I think what we can do
> is move *both* orientations into the writing-mode, like this:
>
>    writing-mode: horizontal-tb | vertical-rl | vertical-lr | sideways-rl
> | sideways-lr;
>    text-orientation: mixed | upright | sideways (or sideways-rl)
>
> This preserves symmetry, and actually makes it even easier for
> horizontal-script authors to get the two most common behaviors.
> They no longer need to use 'text-orientation' unless they want,
> specifically, upright text. So we have these cases then:
>
> Vertical Script Use Cases:
>
>    Chinese, Japanese, Korean
>      writing-mode: vertical-rl;
>      + text-orientation: sideways | upright for inline tweaking
>    Mongolian
>      writing-mode: vertical-lr;
>      + text-orientation: sideways | upright for inline tweaking
>
> Horizontal Script Use Cases:
>
>    Clockwise
>      writing-mode: sideways-rl;
>    Counter-clockwise
>      writing-mode: sideways-lr;
>    Upright LTR
>      writing-mode: vertical-lr;
>      text-orientation: upright;
>    Upright RTL
>      writing-mode: vertical-rl;
>      text-orientation: upright;
>
>    * We would probably disable the 'svrt' feature for the sideways
>      writing modes, only enable it for vertical writing modes with
>      sideways text orientation.

What is this 'svrt' feature of which you speak? I don't see it listed at 
https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/featurelist.htm, nor 
mentioned in http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-writing-modes-3/. What am I 
missing?

JK

Received on Friday, 10 July 2015 10:55:33 UTC