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Re: 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


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