Text Directionality Workgroup

Text Directionality Workgroup
This page will summarize the evolving work of the Text Directionality Workgroup, tasked by the TEI Council with developing a new section for the Guidelines on recommendations for encoding a variety of textual features related to text directionality and orientation. The related SourceForge ticket is [http://purl.org/tei/fr/3475007].

Workgroup Members

 * Martin Holmes (TEI Council)
 * [others coming soon]

Order of Tasks

 * Enumerate textual features to be covered
 * Collate existing standards and recommendations and relate them to features
 * Identify any gaps which might require new TEI elements or attributes
 * Outline the new section
 * Write the first draft for consideration by Council
 * Identify other places in the Guidelines where information or links need to be included

Useful documents

 * Unicode Properties for Horizontal and Vertical Text Layout
 * Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (to be revised soon, in the light of TR50 above)
 * proposed review of TR9
 * what you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup
 * CSS Writing Modes
 * CSS vs Markup in XHTML