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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18 Feb 2003]
At 21:38 2003 02 18 -0600, Paul Grosso wrote: >My very untutored understanding is that there are two key branches here: > >1. There is markup delimiting the language change--whether it is > specifically markup to "change language" or it is other markup > such as "foobar-number" whose content is known to require a > direction change (e.g., numbers in Hebrew are written left-to-right). > > In this case, there is nothing more we need in the DTD. Actually, I mispoke here. What we should probably do is add a "direction" attribute to the <phrase> element in a fashion somewhat parallel to what HTML allows [1]. I think <phrase> can be used for this purpose, but I suppose we could add a "bidi" element (along the lines of HTML's bdo element [2] or XSL-FO's bidi-override element [3]) if we don't wish to use <phrase>. Note that this element needs to be able to nest within itself. paul [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#adef-dir [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#edef-BDO [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo_bidi-override
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