On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: >>I thought that sometimes numbers for example "123." might be written >>horizontally in the middle of a vertical run. >> y >> a >> d >> d >> a >> 123. > >That's true: an extra complication! However, I have only seen that for >one- or two-digit numbers.
I think this is something better handled by special-casing in rendering software -- the numbers (and whatnot) could be rendered as rotated or straight top-to-bottom as well. Considering this, it seems like a stylistic variation better controlled by an upper level protocol, if at all. >But that would a limited case for horizontal text embedded in vertical >text: I cannot imagine a real-world situation for a vertical text >embedded in horizontal text. If you think about the history of this particular rendering, it's about the Western/Arabic numbers intruding the East Asian writing system. If there's anything to believe in cyberpunk, the tide might well turn one day. I'm not quite sure we couldn't one day have residual English embedded with native Japanese terms. ;) Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2