Quoting Peter Constable <[email protected]>:
>> 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.
>
Dear Peter,
thank-you for your patient reply.
BTW I take it here you are refering to Windows text-drawing API.
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> Peter
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