Andrew C. West scripsit:
I think you may have misunderstood me. I'm now suggesting that perhaps Ogham shouldn't be rendered bottom-to-top when embedded in vertical text such as Mongolian, but top-to-bottom as is the case with other LTR scripts such as Latin,
I follow you. The question is, then, whether T2B
TTB, not T2B, please.
Ogham is legible or not to someone who reads B2T
BTT, not B2T, please.
Ogham fluently -- unfortunately, your texts are all pothooks and tick marks to me. :-) When I asked Michael this point-blank, he replied with a rhetorical question.
One wished to encourage the use of native wit.
Ogham has LTR directionality when horizontal, and BTT directionality when carved on ancient monuments. Reversing the directionality
Still mysterious is the question of whether vertical Ogham columns should be laid out L2R or R2L across the page. I suppose the inscriptions aren't really much help.
If you took LTR Ogham in lines and turned the paper so that the L was at the B, you might get your answer.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
