On 1 May 2012, at 11:16, suzuki toshiya wrote: > In current draft of UTR#50, the properties for Canadian aboriginal syllabics > are defined as "U; S; S;". But seeing the PDFs like > > http://www.gov.nu.ca/save10/English/Documents/Newsletters/Newsletter%203/Newsletter%203%20-%20Inuktitut.pdf > http://www.cley.gov.nu.ca/pdf/Documentary%20Art%20Project_Inuk.pdf > it is questionable if the default value "U" is preferred.
I don't know what "U" means, but that rotation is weird and confusing and not legible. In a cross-word, vertical text goes from to to bottom with no rotation. > I cannot exclude the possibility that this rotated text is forced by the > limitation of printing software, but, the tuning of the positions for > the small glyphs for glottal stop and final sounds (U+141C - U+142A, > U+14D0 - U+14D2, etc etc) should be discussed if "U" is preferred value. You are GUESSING. Don't guess, please. You cannot rotate Canadian Syllabics because when you do the letter-values change. The two examples you have shown are examples of extremely bad typographic choices. > Does anybody have "manually written" Canadian aboriginal syllabics in > vertical writing mode? Crosswords go from top to bottom with no rotation J U S T L I L E L A T I N That is the only thing that is immediately still legible in Syllabics. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
