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*Identify other places in the Guidelines where information or links need to be included
 
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*[http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr50/ Unicode Properties for Horizontal and Vertical Text Layout]
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*[http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm] (to be revised soon, in the light of TR50 above)
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*[http://www.unicode.org/review/pri232/ proposed review of TR9]
 
*[http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/bidi/ what you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup]
 
*[http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/bidi/ what you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup]
*[http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/ Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm]
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*[http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/ CSS Writing Modes]
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*[http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-css-markup CSS vs Markup in XHTML]

Revision as of 19:14, 5 December 2012

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