I just filed RFE 573419 to request this. I did not include any examples, but I think I can dig up some over the next couple of days.
Dick > -----Original Message----- > From: Norman Walsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:51 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Attributes for text direction and language > > > / "Christopher R. Maden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | DocBook probably should add the equivalent of HTML's BDO > elements or global > | dir attribute; in the meantime, you could use a generic > <phrase> with a > | role attribute. > > I think Chris is probably right. No one (as far as I know) on the > committee has extensive experience with bidi so we probably believed > that language was sufficient. > > What I would really like are some (reasonably short) examples that > demonstrate (all of) the problems for which there is insufficient > markup. > > I'm offline, if someone could file an RFE for this, I'd be grateful. > > Be seeing you, > norm > > -- > Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "Abstraction, abstraction and > http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | abstraction." This is the answer > Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | to the question, "What are the > | three most important words in > | programming?"--Paul Hudak >
