Rotate it when vertical?

Let's stand up a moment. You know, Vertically...

Sorting it all Out — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:05:03 GMT

I've talked about vertical text support now and again over the years, for example in blogs like:

Looking at life a bit more vertically, for a moment...

Sorting it all Out — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:19:22 GMT

The question Craig asked me last December was clear enough: When will Windows support a vertical layout

Expertise isn't always everything (aka When the one who is learning teaches us something important)

Sorting It All Out — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:47:20 GMT

The other day I was chatting by email with a developer on a unique problem -- she was trying to support

A whole new spin on the term 'Vertical markets' (aka in SiaO we trust?)

Sorting It All Out — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:04:51 GMT

One of the interesting side effects of having comments open all the time is that sometimes a post from

re: Rotate it when vertical?

Michael S. Kaplan — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:05:37 GMT

Well, that was a quote, of someone else's opinion....

But there are a whole lot of GDI functions related to fonts that are pretty nightmarish, and one almost has to believe that it is the hideously complex nature of what is underneasth that makes it so hard on top. :-)

re: Rotate it when vertical?

Si — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:58:37 GMT

>it was Apple, who originally designed the core font technology for Windows,

Microsoft licensed TrueType from Apple. TueType is a "core font technology" for sure, but how does that explain the annoying APIs? I don't think you can blame Apple in this case.