On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Kei Takikawa wrote:
> > I'm not so sure it is clear in any case. As Andreas has shown, there may be
> > 8 cases. 4 cases clearly provides the ability to rotate the text of every
> > 90 degrees. For instance, with our roman languages (english, german,
> > french), we could have 4 possibilities.
> >
> > StartCorner Line orientation
> > Normal text upper-left horizontal
> > 90 deg clockwise upper-right vertical
> > 180 degrees lower-right horizontal
> > 90 deg counterclockwise lower-left vertical
>
> My understanding is that Line Orientation is different from Characater
> Orientation: Characters are always printed upright. Is this correct?
The note in 36.1.2 (Text, exchanged attribute) for "LineOrientation" says:
"For vertical line orientation, the character orientation is supposed
to be normal (i.e., the entire line is rotated 90 degrees from
horizontal)..."
I don't understand this. Does it mean
the same character orientation for Horizontal and Vertical
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or 90 degrees rotated for Vertical orientation
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BTW, 90 degree rotation to the left or right? Does this also depend on the
start corner?
Regards,
Andreas
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