Reversed letters; inverted (or rotated) letters

2024-03-20

Letters that are reversed (e.g. right-to-left) or inverted (rotated) with respect to the alignment of the surrounding text. These characters are considered to be set apart from the main body of text by their changed orientation, and so are marked with the hi tag. This element should not be used to indicate text that is all written in reverse, or boustrophedon documents (for which see Direction of Text).

Panciera 1991 ...:

a<hi rend="reversed">b</hi>c
(Panciera)
Εὐα<hi rend="reversed">ν</hi>τήτῳ

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: Εὐα((ν))τήτῳ
(InsAph: 15.101)

<!-- in RIB 1483 --><hi rend="inverted">F</hi>VRIO

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • RIB style: ((F))VRIO
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See also:

Other pages describing <hi>:

Responsibility for this section

  1. Charlotte Tupman, author
  2. Gabriel Bodard, author

EpiDoc version: 9.6

Date: 2024-03-20