https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154756
--- Comment #4 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #3) > The character orientations for style:writing-mode="tb-rl" are correct in > LibreOffice. Correct according to what? > In this > writing-mode east-asian characters are upright and characters from western > languages are turned 90deg clockwise. Aren't you're making an argument in the wrong direction? "If Western languages are rotated in tb-rl (or tb-lr) writing mode, then it is correct for them to be thus rotated." ... that doesn't sound right. Anyway, as I understand the definition of a "writing mode" - that is incorrect. Writing text on paper does not involve rotation, ever. Rotation is something you might do with a paragraph (or other object) _after_ having written it. Glyphs have a natural orientation, and you write/draw them in that orientation; the writing mode controls how you place consecutive glyphs. Again, nobody writes rotated glyphs. > A text direction mode with characters ABC upright from top to bottom is > called "stacked". Such is currently not a possible value of the > style:writing-mode attribute and is not implemented in LibreOffice. It is possible: It is the tb-lr writing mode for English: https://l450v.alamy.com/450v/bw999j/odeon-cinema-sign-bw999j.jpg https://st.focusedcollection.com/13735766/i/1800/focused_167580596-stock-photo-hotel-sign-on-the-side.jpg https://c7.alamy.com/comp/S238P8/bar-sign-on-side-of-building-S238P8.jpg You used the word "stacked" - that's exactly like for Japanese. Japanese tb-rl is the glyphs "stacked" one over the other. > The "tb-rl" is the writing-mode that is dedicated for vertical > writing of east asian scripts like Chinese, Japanese or Korean. We've just agreed that Western script text can also be written in tb-rl or tb-lr modes... the question is how should it be written on those modes. > You can find a good overview about text directions in > https://www.w3.org/TR/?title=requirements&tag=i18n I'll have a look at that. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
