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*[http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-css-markup CSS vs Markup in XHTML] | *[http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-bidi-css-markup CSS vs Markup in XHTML] | ||
Revision as of 02:23, 11 December 2012
Contents
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
