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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18 Feb 2003]
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:48:07AM -0600, Paul Grosso wrote: > >Is that necessary ? Isn't possible to infer the writing direction > >from the value of the "lang" attribute, without adding anything new ? > > I don't think so. Note at [1] that: > > User agents must not use the lang attribute to determine text directionality. Is that from the HTML specs ? > The fact is that both HTML and XSL-FO have a "bidi" element and a > "direction" attribute/property. We could check with the W3C I18N folks > to see if they wish to provide a suggestion, but it looks to me like > our target output formats both support such elements and attributes, > so it probably makes sense for our DTD to do likewise. Well, XSL-FO is completely layout-oriented, and HTML is still striving to get away from layout-oriented stuff. I'm not sure they are good models for DocBook... Regards, -- Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer (dirson@debian.org) Développeur Debian
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