RE: Display of Mongolian in Arabic or Hebrew documents

> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]

> > Think about this: in your horizontal mode, the Mongolian word flows
> > perpendicular to the baseline. In vertical mode, it flows parallel
> > to the baseline. In one or the other, the word is rotated. This has
> > nothing to do with the space.

> I agree we are using the word 'rotated' in a different way here, or to
> be more exact a different frame of reference, baseline vs scrteen.

In a text-drawing API implementation, text is drawn along a path; there is no notion or awareness of a page. All that matters is how glyphs are displayed in relation to that path.



Peter