> I believe, with
> out much to back it up, that this is merely a convention
> applied to the names of historically significant buildings
> and possibly landmarks.

See the attachment to my note
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam/message/1591 for multi-line examples
in newspaper text (titles but also captions).

RI

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W3C

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kirtz [mailto:kirtz@...]
> Sent: 10 August 2003 17:55
> To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: A couple of minor items about directionality
>
>
> Having been a long-standing scholar of CJK, perhaps I can
> shed a little light on this issue. Actually, this habit of
> writing "distinguished" temple names, and names of reverence
> was first adopter in China at least a thousand or more years
> ago. Temple names, names of gates, and other exceptional or
> revered places are always written in reverse, to some how
> distinguish them. But it is not at all consistent in it use.
> Everyone seems to understand that if the name of an old and
> historic building is written backward, it marks it as being
> of historical significance. Yet in writing a description of
> the place the name will appear lettered LTR. I believe, with
> out much to back it up, that this is merely a convention
> applied to the names of historically significant buildings
> and possibly landmarks.
>
> Bill Kirtz
>
> ================================================
>
> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 17:41:02 -0400
> From: Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...>
> Subject: A couple of minor items about directionality
>
> At best, I'm only a casual dilettante concerning CJK; I can
> recognize some common radicals, but can spot fake CJK from
> hundreds of yards/meters away
> .:)
> Nevertheless, I was astonished to see the name of a local Chinese
> restaurant
> (Beijing Star, iirc) rendered horizontally RtoL. Just one
> more stage in casual self-education...
>
>
>
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