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‎vi.4: Text transformation

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‎Vertical orientation in horizontal scripts

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‎Vertical writing modes

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 *Marcus Bingenheimer (Temple University)
 *Stella Dee (King's College, London)
 ===Order of Tasks===

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 *[http://www.w3.org/International/techniques/authoring-html#direction Authoring HTML and CSS techniques], section on directionality (W3C)
 *[http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-controls.en.php Unicode controls vs markup for bidi support (W3C)]
-*[http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/ CSS Writing Modes]
+*[http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/ CSS Writing Modes] (current editor's draft: [http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-writing-modes-3/])
-*[http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-css-markup CSS vs Markup in XHTML]
+*[http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-css-markup CSS vs. markup for bidi support]
 ===Other notes===

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 *[http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr20/ UTR 20, Unicode in XML]
 *[http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/ What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup (W3C)] (more recent developing draft here: [http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/update])
 *[http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-controls.en.php Unicode controls vs markup for bidi support (W3C)]
 *[http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/ CSS Writing Modes]

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 *[http://www.unicode.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=18 Unicode BIDI forum]
 *[http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr20/ UTR 20, Unicode in XML]
-*[http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/bidi/ What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup (W3C)]
+*[http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/ What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup (W3C)] (more recent developing draft here: [http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/update])
 *[http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-controls.en.php Unicode controls vs markup for bidi support (W3C)]
 *[http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/ CSS Writing Modes]

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-Any rotation must take place around a central axis, and the
+Any rotation must take place around an axis positioned relative to the element being rotated, and the <code>transform-origin</code> property can be used to specify the pivot point.
 =====Caveats=====

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 ====vi.4: Text transformation====
-In this section, we examine a range of textual phenomena which in some ways appear very similar to those examined above, and even overlap with them. We can categorize these as text transformation features, and suggest some strategies for encoding them based on the properties detailed in the [http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transforms/ CSS Transforms] specification.
+In what follows, we examine a range of textual phenomena which in some ways appear very similar to those examined above, and even overlap with them. We can categorize these as text transformation features, and suggest some strategies for encoding them based on the properties detailed in the [http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transforms/ CSS Transforms] specification.
 We begin with a simple example of a rotational transform:

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 =====Vertical orientation in horizontal scripts=====
-It is not unusual to see text from horizontal languages written vertically even where it is not embedded in a vertical text run. This example is a fragment from a table of information about agricultural development on Vancouver Island, written in 1855:
+It is not unusual to see text from horizontal languages written vertically even where it is not embedded in a text run from a vertically-written script. This example is a fragment from a table of information about agricultural development on Vancouver Island, written in 1855:
 [[File:bcgenesis co 305 06 00131v table extract.jpg|thumb|center|600px|alt=Agricultural report table|Enclosure with 10048, CO 305/6, p. 109 http://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/getDoc.htm?id=V55116.scx]]

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-Note: for the sake of simplicity, the indenting of lines in the vertical Japanese has been ignored in this encoding, since this section focuses on language and writing mode issues. The Japanese transcription has <code>writing-mode: vertical-rl</code>, which is required because Japanese may be written either in this mode or horizontally. The transcription in Romaji has <code>@xml:lang="ja-Latn"</code> (Japanese written in Latin script) and has a horizontal writing mode; this may seem superfluous, but vertically-written romaji is not unknown.
+Note: for the sake of simplicity, the indenting of lines in the vertical Japanese and the central alignment of the other components have been ignored in this encoding, since this section focuses on language and writing mode issues. The Japanese transcription has <code>writing-mode: vertical-rl</code>, which is required because Japanese may be written either in this mode or horizontally. The transcription in Romaji has <code>@xml:lang="ja-Latn"</code> (Japanese written in Latin script) and has a horizontal writing mode; this may seem superfluous, but vertically-written romaji is not unknown.
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