Re: [office-comment] marking directionality of text inside a paragraph

[Thorsten Behrens <thb@openoffice.org>]

robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> The ODF 1.2 (this was in 1.1 as well) spec, Appendix E1 of Part 1 covers 
> Bidi text.
> 

Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> Nothing that involves Unicode control characters can be described
> as "easily".
> 
I tend to agree with Amir - albeit sufficient in expressiveness,
that's still an area in ODF that's a bit inconsistent, and involves
extra effort for 'simple' applications.

Beyond that, getting lower impedance towards/from HTML is desirable
- if it doesn't break anything.

Cheers,

-- Thorsten

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