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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Attributes for text direction and language
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 17:23 17/6/02, HAMILTON,DICK (HP-FtCollins,ex1) wrote: >I just took at look at the unicode bidirectional algorithm >as described in: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/. >It is very complex and I don't claim to understand it in its >full glory, but there are codes that provide explicit directional >information, and the handling of numbers is covered in some >detail in the algorithm. I can't say for sure if it will handle >what you're doing, but since Hebrew was explicitly considered in >the development of the algorithm, I think there's a good chance >it will do what you need (if browsers and stylesheets use the >algorithm). Embedding the bidi-override characters directly in your content would be a bad idea. Those are really only for text-only use; when you have a semantic layer (such as SGML or XML), it's much better to use that. DocBook probably should add the equivalent of HTML's BDO elements or global dir attribute; in the meantime, you could use a generic <phrase> with a role attribute. ~Chris - -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, crism consulting DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPQ6MpKxS+CWv7FjaEQLGWgCg4bvNguQVBmVBoDOk+Hli2kxNK2EAn0gw B72y/AqAod59F9hJ6W1OGG9l =m92U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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