Re: SI units (was: Expressing fractions)

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:36:07 GMT

Lee Sau Dan wrote:

> Most computer software for both Japanese and Chinese display text
> horizontally, in the same direction as the Latin script. However,
> when it comes to printing, many software are armed with "vertical
> versions" of fonts, which is nothing but normal fonts with each
> character rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. The text-processing
> software need to do no extra work. They just need to use these
> vertical fonts and the printout will be vertically set -- when you
> rotate the printout 90 degrees clockwise. (But some punctuations,
> such as a dash or the parenthesis, should not be rotated for vertical
> printout. So, they have the same appearance in both the vertical and
> normal versions of a font.)

That doesn't work for scripts in left-to-right columns, like Mongolian.
You'd have to print from the bottom of the paper up. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net