Re: [office] For discussion of OFFICE-4030 and OFFICE-3791

[Regina Henschel <regina.henschel@libreoffice.org>]

Hi Miklos,

Miklos Vajna schrieb am 16-Dec-19 um 09:48:
> Hi Regina,
>
> Let me try to just summarize my intention.
>
> The idea is that the btlr ("rotate to left" for latin text) direction is
> similar to the tbrl ("rotate to right" for latin text and/or "Japanese")
> direction, just the rotation is counter-clockwise, not clockwise.

tbrl corresponds to OOXML "eaVert" and has typographical rotation, where 
CJK characters stay upright.

Doing similar counter-clockwise would not correspond to OOXML vert270.

> As you say, the tbrl case has multiple cases where the individual glyphs
> are or are not rotated. As far as I know, neither the libreoffice
> implementation of the proposal nor OOXML does glyph-level rotation in
> the btlr case (so that simplifies the situation).

The implementation in LibreOffice is faulty anyway, see 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128221

Kind regards
Regina