On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:19:20AM -0600, Paul Grosso wrote: > 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.
Is that necessary ? Isn't possible to infer the writing direction from the value of the "lang" attribute, without adding anything new ? For special cases like the Hebrew numbers, what about going more semantic and provide a "number" element ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Technical support manager Responsable de l'assistance technique Senior Free-Software Consultant Consultant senior en Logiciels Libres Debian developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) D�veloppeur Debian
