Re: [office] Bi-directional text.

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

Daniel,

If it would not be too much extra work, could you also write an 
explanation with specific reference to the comments from the Egyptian 
National Body that accompanied their yes vote on ODF? Thinking that the 
general explanation is a great idea but in this context, answering the 
specific cases that they pose would also be quite useful. We can 
incorporate that into a disposition of the comment.

We also need to consider how to response to the comments from the 
Israeli National Body and the UK.

Thanks!

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Lars Oppermann wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> 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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Patrick Durusau
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