DOCBOOK: Re: bidi

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com> was heard to say:

First, let me say "thanks" for completing my action item for me :-)

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| 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.

Having followed the references and dug around a bit, I think we should
add an attribute to indicate directionality. I see no reason to add an
explicit "bidi" element as we already have a suitable container
(phrase).

Paul, you suggest that we add it to "phrase", but I think it might be
more appropriate to simply make it a common attribute. I don't see why
one might not wish to indicate that a paragraph or blockquote or even
a table should be in a specific direction.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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