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Subject: Re: [dita-translation] Draft proposal for dir attribute
Hello again -- only two short comments on the dir attribute. 1. As the one currently responsible for maintaining and bug-fixing the DTDs, I would strongly favor making it a universal attribute, rather than adding it to almost everything. 2. One of the points in the write-up says: "If the document element does not specify the dir attribute, assume left to right (ltr). " The previous bullet says that inline elements use the "specified language's default text direction". Wouldn't that be the case for the document as well? That is, if I indicate xml:lang="he-il" on my root topic element, then everything in the topic (such as tables, notes, and lists) should default to dir="rtl" unless otherwise specified. I do not know about the lro and rlo values -- does anybody here have tool experience that would indicate whether these are still needed? If tools still require them, then we should probably add them. Robert D Anderson IBM Authoring Tools Development Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit "Gershon L Joseph" <gershon@tech-tav To .com> <dita-translation@lists.oasis-open. org>, <mambrose@sdl.com>, 03/02/2006 01:36 <pcarey@lexmark.com>, PM <rfletcher@sdl.com>, <bhertz@sdl.com>, "'Richard Ishida'" <ishida@w3.org>, Please respond to <tony.jewtushenko@productinnovator. gershon com>, <patrickk@scriptware.nl>, "'Lieske, Christian'" <christian.lieske@sap.com>, "'Jennifer Linton'" <jennifer.linton@comtech-serv.com>, <Sukumar.Munshi@lionbridge.com>, Charles Pau/Cambridge/IBM@Lotus, <dpooley@sdl.com>, <Peter.Reynolds@lionbridge.com>, "'Felix Sasaki'" <fsasaki@w3.org>, "'Yves Savourel'" <ysavourel@translate.com>, Dave A Schell/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, "'Bryan Schnabel'" <bryan.s.schnabel@tek.com> cc Subject [dita-translation] Draft proposal for dir attribute Hi all, Here's my draft proposal for the dir attribute. I'd appreciate review feedback via email before Monday's SC meeting so we can try closing this item on Monday to hand off to the DITA TC. It's a working draft that I hope will invoke input from the SC members. Based on feedback I receive, I plan to prepare a closer to final draft before Monday's meeting. I think the main questions are: 1. Should dir be a universal attribute or not? 2. Should we support dir="ltr|rtl" or dir="ltr|rtl|lro|rlo" as per HTML 4.0? Any and all feedback will be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Gershon --- Gershon L Joseph Member, OASIS DITA and DocBook Technical Committees Director of Technology and Single Sourcing Tech-Tav Documentation Ltd. office: +972-8-974-1569 mobile: +972-57-314-1170 http://www.tech-tav.com [attachment "DirAttr.html" deleted by Robert D Anderson/Rochester/IBM]
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