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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Attributes for text direction and language
Christopher R. Maden: > 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. Norman Walsh: > 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. It seems to me that the rationale for the inclusion of the bdo element and the dir attribute in HTML/XHTML may also hold true of DocBook for its internationalization. Cf. HTML 4.01 Specification, 8.2 Specifying the direction of text and tables, for examples: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2 Tsuguya Sasaki http://www.ts-cyberia.net/
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