> As things now stand, Ogham must be wrapped in RLO...PDF brackets when
> mixed with vertical Han or Mongolian.

Yes, that's true -- and I don't see any reason why people can't live with
that... Those are the kinds of reasons we have the explicit controls.

Mark
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Mike Ayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thu, 2004 May 27 21:26
Subject: Re: [BULK] - Re: Vertical BIDI


> Mark Davis scripsit:
>
> > What the Bidi Algorithm says both of these is at:
> >
> > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Vertical_Text
>
> However, it does not specify the treatment of Ogham embedded in TTB
> text, since Ogham is the only script with both a required horizontal
> direction (LTR) and a required vertical one (BTT).
>
> As things now stand, Ogham must be wrapped in RLO...PDF brackets when
> mixed with vertical Han or Mongolian.
>
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