Re: vertical direction control

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 15:23:07 EST

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    At 15:10 -0500 2004-03-24, Ernest Cline wrote:

    >Actually, from what sources I've seen, while the Philippine scripts were
    >sometimes written as if they were bottom to top when using materials
    >other than paper, it was always read left to right. It was a case of it
    >being more convenient with the materials used to write it bottom to top,
    >but it was never intended to be read that way.

    As I said, it was written from-the-body-out.

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    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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