  RE: [css3-writing-modes] Character's intrinsic orientation
From: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp> Date: Wed, 23 Mar
2011 15:23:58 -0400 To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
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Thank you John for the feedback.  Yes, we're aware of that, and
to support such scenario, we have introduced a concept called
"horizontal typographic mode" and "vertical typographic
mode"[1].  Examples you raised are "horizontal typographic mode"
layout rotated by 90 degree. You can make it by text-orientation
rotate-right or rotate-left.    -----Original Message----- Sent:
Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:00 AM To: Koji Ishii Cc: Eric Muller;
www-style@w3.org; CJK discussion (public-i18n-cjk@w3.org)  Koji
Ishii scripsit:  > Greek documents in vertical text flow.  In
specialized contexts such as the spines of books, horizontal
scripts are often written in vertical text flow.  This is not
just script-dependent but language-dependent: English-language
book spines