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Subject: RE: RE: [dita-translation] Draft proposal for dir attribute
Best Regards,
Gershon
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
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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
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Director of
Technology and Single Sourcing
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