In "Index to Yi Texts preserved in National Library" (ISBN 078-7-101-07415-4, Zhonghua Book Company) which has a list of titles of Yi texts, in both of Old Yi and Chinese. The Old Yi characters are digitally typesetted, although I feel its quality has not matured yet.
The orientation of the glyphs are same with vertical Old Yi. I'm not saying this is reliable evidence to determine the rotation/non-rotation of UCS or Old Yi texts, just I wanted to show longer example that is coincides with the glyph orientations in Andrew's sample. Regards, mpsuzuki [email protected] wrote: > 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.
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