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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: bidi override thoughts
Norman Walsh wrote at 21 Aug 2002 16:57:19 -0400: > Well, for consistency with HTML, and so that moving something from one > context to another doesn't inadvertantly "flip" the direction, I think > I'd be inclined to give it values of "left-to-right" and > "right-to-left" rather than just make it boolean. So you're really talking about setting the text direction, not about overriding the behaviour of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm? Isn't "dir" or "direction" a better name than "bdo"? If it really is an override, what sets the existing text direction that you're overriding? Regards, Tony Graham ------------------------------------------------------------------------ XML Technology Center - Dublin mailto:tony.graham@sun.com Sun Microsystems Ireland Ltd Phone: +353 1 8199708 Hamilton House, East Point Business Park, Dublin 3 x(70)19708
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