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Re: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18 Feb 2003]
- From: steven dot cogorno at sun dot com (Steven Cogorno)
- To: Yann Dirson <ydirson at fr dot alcove dot com>
- Cc: Paul Grosso <pgrosso at arbortext dot com>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:51:57 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18 Feb 2003]
Yann Dirson said:
> > Actually, I mispoke here. What we should probably do is
> > add a "direction" attribute to the <phrase> element in
> > a fashion somewhat parallel to what HTML allows [1]. I
> > think <phrase> can be used for this purpose, but I suppose
> > we could add a "bidi" element (along the lines of HTML's
> > bdo element [2] or XSL-FO's bidi-override element [3]) if
> > we don't wish to use <phrase>. Note that this element needs
> > to be able to nest within itself.
>
> Is that necessary ? Isn't possible to infer the writing direction
> from the value of the "lang" attribute, without adding anything new ?
Direction is required because it is acceptable to write some languages in
two directions.
Steve Cogorno
Sun Microsystems