Support for vertical script?

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Bathrobe
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Support for vertical script?

Post by Bathrobe » Fri Nov 30, 2018 1:42 am

Before I start using Joomla! I would like to confirm whether text orientations other than horizontal script (left to right), lines going from top to bottom of page, are supported. For example, whether vertical script (top to bottom), lines running right to left (traditional Chinese, Japanese), and vertical script (top to bottom), lines running left to right (traditional Mongolian) are supported.

I don't want to use this for page layout. What I want to do is embed sections of text in these orientations within a normal page of horizontal script. Thank you!
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Re: Support for vertical script?

Post by infograf768 » Fri Nov 30, 2018 5:56 am

No sure about vertical script (does any CMS support that?), but for sure LTR and RTL are fully supported.
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Re: Support for vertical script?

Post by infograf768 » Fri Nov 30, 2018 6:44 am

There are css for vertical writing, namely the `writing-mode property`
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... iting-mode
http://generatedcontent.org/post/453842 ... ting-modes
https://www.w3.org/International/articl ... ical-text/

Therefore the implementation will depend on the template you use (and the font).
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