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Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Attributes for text direction and language
Tsuguya Sasaki <ts@ts-cyberia.net> writes: > > > 1) What is the DocBook equivalent, if any, of the HTML attribute > > > DIR for specifying in which direction, i.e. left-to-right or > > > right-to-left, text should be rendered within the containing > > > element? > > > > I don't know of one. Wouldn't the direction be determined > > by the lang? > > You are right. But according to my experience of writing the mixture > of LTR and RTL (mostly Hebrew) texts in HTML/XHTML, there are > cases where I have to specify the text direction explicitly by using the > span element and the dir attribute. > > For example, if I write rtl_text + numbers without any mechanism > specifying the text direction, they aren't displayed in this logical > order but in the reverse physical order of numbers + rtl_text. This also > happens in DocBook documents. > > Since I don't find any element and attribute in DocBook corresponding > to span and class respectively in HTML, I would also like to ask you > mavens if there is some way to have the same effect. Or am I missing > something? Have a look at <phrase> and look at the various common attributes, e.g. "role". Together they should serve your needs. Jens
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