Requirement

+NAME
Rick Jelliffe

+CONTACT


+CATEGORY (select one or more from below)
formatting

+SCOPE (select one or more from below)
text

+USE CASE
Text Grid enhancements.

Chinese, Japanese and Korean text has a requirement for text grid layout.
ODF already provides a kind of grid, but it is incomplete.

The details are at
http://linpeifeng.blogspot.com/2007/02/text-grid-enhancement.html

For more information, see W3C Requirements of Japanese Text Layout
http://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/


+DESCRIPTION

The proposal on grid layout from Novell and, I believe, implemented in
their semi-fork of OpenOffice, looks a realistic
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Image:Text_Grid_Enhancement.odt