Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:
[...snip...]
with horizontally written scripts: about twenty years ago I saw
a book in Japanese, written top-to-bottom, with German proper, and
place names imbedded. These were also written top-to-bottom, with
the glyphs rotated by 90 degrees; so you could turn the book counter-
clockwise to read these names, in the usual way. This imebedding
method would also work with left-to-right phrases in Mongolian text.
For right-to-left scripts, you would have to turn the glyphs the other
way.
I think, it would be useful to have this method described in a
forthcoming Unicode standard.
[...snip...]
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Yes, this is still seen in some works treating classical Chinese subjects.
I myself (granted, on rare occasions) employ a roman font for this
purpose, in which I have rotated all of the characters 90 degrees
clockwise.
***
On a tangetially related issue ... If I may take this opportunity, I would
like to suggest that readers of this list might find my recent publication
to be of interest, from a multilingual computing aspect. Although that
text was typeset using a variety of computer fonts, many of my own design,
it does illustrate my working solutions to some multilingual computing
problems. Within this work, readers will also find a table of the 540
classifier-glyphs of the mother of all Chinese dictionaries, in a
small-seal computer font of my design. This latter font was completed in
part as an initial test of the requirements for a complete Chinese
small-seal font of the characters of the dictionary _Shuowen Jiezi Zhu_,
by the Western Han Xu Shen, annotated by the Qing scholar Duan Yucai.
This publication, monograph volume 18.2 of the biannual journal
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, UC Berkeley, Spring 1997, is
"typographically the most complex document ever published by LTBA".
Info may be found at my web page, URL below.
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Richard S. Cook
Somerville, Massachusetts USA
email: rscook@world.std.com
http://world.std.com/~rscook/
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