Index talk:The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal 1906-12 Vol 37 Iss 12.pdf
Latest comment: 8 months ago by Fish bowl in topic Page:The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal 1906-12 Vol 37 Iss 12.pdf/23
@ShakespeareFan00: May I ask you to elaborate? Fish bowl (talk) 05:25, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
- On the page the chinese language text is a continuous block across the page, In the version currently it's in blocks down the page.
- If this was the only way to do this however.
- ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 07:26, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
- @ShakespeareFan00: It can be done by applying
writing-mode: vertical-rl
to〈poem〉
, but I didn't think it was a great priority, as modern Chinese text is left-to-right (Westernized), and site CSS for〈poem〉
〈ol〉
has margin specifications that translate poorly towriting-mode: vertical-rl
(which is why attributes like margin-block-start were devised). Fish bowl (talk) 19:55, 10 October 2023 (UTC) - (Unrelated, but I am heavily judging the printers' decision to resize the text to fit the page, such that the stroke-dense Chinese is of a smaller font size than the English text, and the resulting scan is relatively smudged. Fish bowl (talk) 20:04, 10 October 2023 (UTC))
- @ShakespeareFan00: It can be done by applying