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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18Feb 2003]
Paul Grosso wrote: > 2. There is no markup delimiting the region that needs to change direction. > Instead, the character data includes some Unicode code-points that are > used to imply direction changing. > > In this case, what can we do? It's not a markup question any more. > It's a question of "do magic because you found a magic byte combination > in my character stream." (Can you tell what I think of this?) But I > really do not see how this could possibly be something we could address > via the DocBook DTD. I don't have any personal experience with R-T-L languages but following W3C memo notes some reason why it is better to capture text direction change by markup and not by just characters. http://www.w3.org/TR/unicode-xml/#Bidi Maybe it will put some light into this issue. Jirka -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz
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