Re: Unicode version of Lout

[WANG Huaxin]

On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 05:11:36AM +0400, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:55:05AM +1000, Jeff Kingston wrote:
> > On one technical point, there is a design issue in the matter of
> > language vs paragraph fill direction.  As I understand it, these
> > are not tightly linked - Chinese, I believe, can go in at least
> > two directions, for example.
> 
> Yes, that's correct (line left-to-right with lines top-down and line
> top-down with lines right-to-left, IIRC).

In fact, the vertical writing direction of Chinese is obsolete now.  Never-
theless, it's better if it can be implemented.  But it won't hurt if this is
not supported.  And normally, it's implemented by using a 90d rotated font
on a 90d rotated paper, thus the paragraph filling mode is same as normal
left-to-right writing direciton, like this:

Normal left-to-right writing direction:

1^^^^^
2^^^^^

Top-to-down writing direction:

21
^^
^^
^^
^^
^^

Rotated font with rotated paper:

1<<<<<
2<<<<<

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