Re: Display of Mongolian in Arabic or Hebrew documents

John Hudson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andrew West wrote:

> From a font's perspective there is no difference
> between horizontal layout and vertical (i.e. rotated horizontal)
> layout.

Which is what has been questioned by some people. I personally think using a 'rotated 
horizontal' layout model for scripts like Mongolian is fine: I was just explaining what I 
understand to be the (possibly impractical) option. It seems to rub some people the wrong 
way that the glyphs for a vertical script are not vertical, but perhaps they are 
encountering text in applications that fail to display the text runs rotated, and hence 
are seeing it as horizontal and blaming the font.

John Hudson

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