<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>SignWriting List</DIV><DIV>June 2, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Mark Penner wrote:<DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Aha. In vertical Japanese, when you underline a sentence or word in a book or on a page, your line goes to the side of the character(s), not underneath it. That way it doesn't become part of the character. I don't know that I recall seeing something printed that way to start with, but thats how highlighting was done before the days of the fancy see-through highlighting pens. Anyway, when you're writing columns, it would seem a line on the side would be the natural way to "underline." (or do we need to call it "sidelining"? haha)</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Mark and Everyone!</DIV><DIV>This is really delicious...I am smiling from ear to ear...Look at underlining in Japanese! The underlining is side-lining...you are right...James and Mark...I guess this is the way it is done with other vertical writing systems!!....but notice how they had the same problems we have, and they had to come up with a solution...so this is one solution...or using color is another....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN><IMG src="cid:1CD6E86C-C9A8-4978-9794-10AF63764016@local"></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>