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RE: Re: Attributes for text direction and language
- From: "HAMILTON,DICK (HP-FtCollins,ex1)" <dick_hamilton at hp dot com>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 18:13:26 -0700
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Re: Attributes for text direction and language
I just filed RFE 573419 to request this. I did not
include any examples, but I think I can dig up some
over the next couple of days.
Dick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:51 AM
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Attributes for text direction and language
>
>
> / "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org> was heard to say:
> | DocBook probably should add the equivalent of HTML's BDO
> elements or global
> | dir attribute; in the meantime, you could use a generic
> <phrase> with a
> | role attribute.
>
> I think Chris is probably right. No one (as far as I know) on the
> committee has extensive experience with bidi so we probably believed
> that language was sufficient.
>
> What I would really like are some (reasonably short) examples that
> demonstrate (all of) the problems for which there is insufficient
> markup.
>
> I'm offline, if someone could file an RFE for this, I'd be grateful.
>
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
> --
> Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | "Abstraction, abstraction and
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | abstraction." This is the answer
> Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | to the question, "What are the
> | three most important words in
> | programming?"--Paul Hudak
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