Re: [office] Bi-directional text.

[Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera@zmsl.com>]

Lars Oppermann wrote:
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> This base direction can then be used in conjunction with the unicode 
> bidi-algorithm (http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/) and the 
> marks/signs from unicode-15.2 in order to display the content correctly.

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

I think it would help if the OpenDocument spec had a non-normative 
appendix explaining which features provide bidi support. It'd be 
essentially what you just wrote on your email. And we could do the same 
for accessibility, and for any other issue that comes up in the future.

> I think that the problem might be due to the fact, that a) there is no 
> explicit section in OpenDocument describing all bidi functions and b) 
> the functionality is a combinations of attributes defined in 
> OpenDocument and mechanisms specified in unicode. It's hard to keep 
> track of things that way. Maybe a set of examples and their appropriate 
> coding in OpenDocument would be a useful resource for implementors as 
> well as evaluators of the OpenDocument standard. Any volunteers?

I'll volunteer to write a short appendix. It'll be mostly just copy and 
paste from your email.

Best,
Daniel.
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