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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: bidi [was: DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Minutes:18 Feb 2003]
Yann Dirson said: > > 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. > > Is that necessary ? Isn't possible to infer the writing direction > from the value of the "lang" attribute, without adding anything new ? Direction is required because it is acceptable to write some languages in two directions. Steve Cogorno Sun Microsystems
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