On Mon, 2 Feb 1998 21:30:06 +0100 (MET),
Andreas Kraft <kraft@fokus.gmd.de> said:
> a colleague asked me about the orientation of text in the Text class.
> It is obvious that the "LineOrientation" and "StartCorner" attributes
> are to be used in combination.
>
> Is the following table of assumed text rendering directions correct:
>
>
> LineOrientation| |
> -------------+ | Horizontal | Vertical
> StartCorner \| |
> ---------------+----------------------------+----------------------------
> upper-left | left,top -> right,bottom | left,top -> bottom,right
> lower-left | left,bottom -> right, top | left,bottom -> top, right
> upper-right | right, top -> left, bottom | right,top -> bottom, left
> lower-right | right, bottom -> left, top | right, bottom -> top, left
>
>
> If yes, is this somewhere stated or do I just remember it from one of
> the meetings?
> Do we need a clarification here?
I remember this discussed in first Tokyo meeting concerning MHEG-5,
but there is no inscription in the standard. IMHO, it is quite natual,
isn't it?
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