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Change the rule for establishing base direction #8

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stevenatkin opened this issue Jun 15, 2016 · 1 comment
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Change the rule for establishing base direction #8

stevenatkin opened this issue Jun 15, 2016 · 1 comment

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@stevenatkin
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stevenatkin commented Jun 15, 2016

http://w3c.github.io/bp-i18n-specdev/#bidi_block_change

I would make this rule a little clearer.

The content author must be able to indicate parts of the text where the base direction changes. At the block level, this should be achieved using attributes or metadata, and should not rely on Unicode control characters.

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The content author must be able to indicate parts of the text where the base direction changes. At the block level, this should be achieved using attributes or metadata, and should not require the content author to use Unicode control characters to control direction.

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lkemmel commented Jun 16, 2016

In the same section, #bidi_inline_embed rule says:

"Provide attributes that allow the user to (a) create an embedded base direction or (b) override the bidirectional algorithm altogether; the attribute should allow the user to set the direction to LTR or RTL in either of these two scenarios."

It is unclear, what the word "altogether" refers to, considering the rule doesn't suggest combining embedded direction and bidi-override characteristics in a single attribute.

Also, embedded direction should accept the AUTO value in addition to LTR and RTL.

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