At 12:22 -0400 2004-05-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This would be the Major Arcana?
Yes. AFAIK that term is relatively recent, ca. 1900; "trump" (i.e. "triumph") goes back to the Tarot's origin around 1450.
Trump seems to mean something else in English these days.
On dominoes: I agree that there is no plain-text distinction between domino orientations,
Figure 1 shows a distinction being made.
and that it is appropriate to code each domino only once.
I disagree.
It would even be possible to code each half-domino only once.
Oh, come on. That is a kludge. Keep it simple.
If this is not done, I also agree that a single convention such as low-end-leftmost should be chosen so that CSS glyph rotation will produce consistent results.
CSS glyph rotation? I am astonished. We have not done that with the multitude of arrows we have encoded. Why would you want to make this into a script with complex rendering, John?
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