On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:12:27 +0100 Andrew West <[email protected]> wrote: >This can be seen in the scans from the two modern >editions of Old Yi texts from Guizhou below (ISBN 7-5412-0787-X and >7-5412-0659-8 respectively) where the book title is written >horizontally on the front cover and vertically on the title page, with >no change in glyph orientation: > ><http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Yi/Images/Sujulimi2.jpg> ><http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Yi/Images/Sujulimi3.jpg> > ><http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Yi/Images/YizuYuanliu2.jpg> ><http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Yi/Images/YizuYuanliu3.jpg>
Thank you very much!! It is my first time to see a side-by-side sample of digitally typed Old Yi characters (On YiWenZiDian ISBN 7-5367-1509-9, the front cover and spine have the digital typed Old Yi, but no horizontal title in the book). I guess there are no widely used existing facility to typeset Old Yi, so I think the publishers had no difficulty to make a horizontal Old Yi text with 90 degree rotated shapes, if they are preferred. >> https://www.codeblog.org/blog/mpsuzuki/images/20120327_1.gif > >The characters on this page are written in the same orientation as UCS >Yi (cf. the characters on the 3rd column from the left, U+A411, U+A15D, >U+A412). Yes. When I saw this page, I had thought this is the preferred orientation in Sichuan Old Yi. But, in another book, the glyphs for Sichuan Old Yi is differently oriented. Please compare: https://www.codeblog.org/blog/mpsuzuki/images/20120327_1.gif https://www.codeblog.org/blog/mpsuzuki/images/20120328_1.gif I'm not sure if either of the 2 books rotates the glyphs artificially, or both books are right. Regards, mpsuzuki
