RE: DOCBOOK: Re: Attributes for text direction and language

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:]
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:51 AM
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> Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Attributes for text direction and language
> 
> 
> / "Christopher R. Maden" <> 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
> 
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