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