At 20:48 -0400 2002-07-08, John Cowan wrote: >Michael Everson scripsit: >> My point being that though Beijing and Hong Kong newspaper headlines >> might present LTR or RTL directionality without mirroring, this >> practice is rare or indeed unknown in Europe at 1700 BCE. > >In any event, the so-called RTL CJK is more like TTB-RTL with columns >of size one. (That sentence deserves a jargon award of some sort.)
That analysis may appear to be the case for headlines or signs, but it doesn't hold up for some multi-row photo captions or some movie subtitles. (I'd provide a scan, but the newspaper I was going to use has since switched from top-to-bottom to left-to-right. I should've kept some of the issues that had "911" embedded in "rtl" headlines, too.) Thomas Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
