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)
 * Deborah W. Anderson (Unicode Consortium)
 * Robert Whalen (Northern Michigan University)
 * Marcus Bingenheimer (Temple University)
 * Stella Dee (King's College, London)

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

Mailing List
The group has a mailing list provided through Brown University at http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TEI-DIR-WG.

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
 * Unicode controls vs markup for bidi support
 * CSS Writing Modes
 * CSS vs Markup in XHTML