Re: [sword-devel] Re: [sword-support] sword project for mongolian

2006-02-09 Thread Martin Gruner
> Once the major browsers implement vertical text, it probably will be > easy to put it into BibleDesktop. Sure, same for BibleTime. I just wanted to make a practical suggestion. BTW, since these are so marginal languages (?), I don't know if this is ever going to be supported by the mainstream

Re: [sword-devel] Re: [sword-support] sword project for mongolian

2006-02-09 Thread DM Smith
Martin Gruner wrote: DM, I guess that it would be good to add another value to the Direction= field (TLtoBR?). I think that "tb" should be a separate setting since it can either be rtol or ltor, depending on the language. This way if a frontend cannot honor "tb", it can still honor rtol. I

Re: [sword-devel] Re: [sword-support] sword project for mongolian

2006-02-09 Thread Martin Gruner
DM, I guess that it would be good to add another value to the Direction= field (TLtoBR?). Since is obligatory it cannot be a user preference. Only the drawing of the text itself has to be handled by the frontends. There might be ways to "emulate" TLtoBR by using tables (one char per cell). Thi

Re: [sword-devel] Re: [sword-support] sword project for mongolian

2006-02-09 Thread Martin Gruner
This will have to be handled in the frontends, and thus for every platform separately. Some people extended QT/KDE to be able to draw vertically: http://dot.kde.org/1130546299/. I don't know if this has already been integrated into QT4. mg Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2006 16:00 schrieb DM Smith:

[sword-devel] Re: [sword-support] sword project for mongolian

2006-02-09 Thread DM Smith
I took a look at IE's write-mode: tb-rl and it rotates the characters as well as the text. Probably not what is wanted. CSS3 specifies this ability but IE does not handle it (don't know about IE7) and I didn't check FireFox 1.5 or Opera. When the major browsers support CSS3 then perhaps www.cr