I am curious to know some of the implications
of vertical mode text are in render/xft:

since it may be desired for an application to have
fonts be rendered differently in those situations, how
compatible would that be with the current code?

(I know that rotation is part of a font's description,
but this is different, part of the kerning but not really
in the relation of two+glyphs rather between the glyph
and the text-direction )

for example, in japanese,the glyph at U+3087, "small yo",
would look best centered at the top-right of the em
in vertical mode, but in horizontal mode it looks best
in the bottom left.

(A common compromise current fonts use is to simply center
it, giving acceptable but mediocre appearance)

just wondering if anybody knows offhand what the sticking
points would be for that...

thx,
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