On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 11:48 -0700, mathog wrote:
On 28-Oct-2015 07:41, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
- Latin characters in vertical text will be drawn by default
sideways. This is the default direction in both SVG 1.1 and in CSS 3 Writing Modes. Currently Inkscape draws the glyphs upright.
For Latin characters how does that differ from rotated horizontal text?
If the text only consists of Latin characters, it doesn't. However, the most common use of vertical text is for CJK layout where CJK punctuation (brackets, dashes, etc.) and Latin characters are rotated.
Isn't vertical text for Latin characters to be used in those situations where the glyphs are to be drawn "head to toe", as it were, as on the neon name sign on a theater? Like this:
That can be done by using the 'text-orientation' value 'upright'.
Regards,
David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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