Yes, I will post my feedback to UTR#50 (in the forum for PRI#207) within several hours... It's a pity that no discussion was posted to your feedback on April 4th...
Regards, mpsuzuki Andrew West wrote: > On 1 May 2012 03:48, suzuki toshiya <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I wouldn't expect to see vertical modern standard Yi text in modern >>> publications, other than perhaps newspapers. >> I got a scanned image of Liangshan Ribao (涼山日報), dated 2002/Mar/9, >> the vertical text is laid out without glyph rotation. > > Thanks! Those are very good examples, especially the whole paragraph > of vertically written text next to the photograph, and really should > settle the argument once and for all. Now all we have to do is > convince fantasai and the other folk working on UTR #50 that the > people typesetting the Liangshan Daily really do know how to typeset > Yi, and that they are not making a terrible faux pas because of > technical limitations or unfamiliarity with Yi typographic traditions > (of course, for the standardized Liangshan Yi syllabary encoded in > Unicode there is no typographic tradition prior to the standardization > of the script in 1980). > > Andrew
