ISSUE-229 (Mixed progression): Mixed vertical-horizontal progression direction [TTML.next] from Timed Text Working Group Issue Tracker on 2013-05-30 (public-tt@w3.org from May 2013)

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ISSUE-229 (Mixed progression): Mixed vertical-horizontal progression direction [TTML.next]

http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/229

Raised by: Pierre-Anthony Lemieux
On product: TTML.next

[The following is extracted from the liaison received from SMPTE at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2012Sep/0214.html]

See Section 6.10 at ST 428-7, Section 8.2.24 at TTML.

It shall be possible to specify a horizontal progression direction for a <span> element within a container where progression direction is otherwise vertical.
 
Note: This is most common for special characters in an Asian text string that is being displayed vertically, as illustrated in Figure 2.

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