RE: Another idea for a FAQ

Najib, 

I went through that exercise with a similar stylesheet already.  Check out the styling for http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/Overview.he.html

RI


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Najib Tounsi [mailto:ntounsi@emi.ac.ma] 
> Sent: 26 November 2004 19:12
> To: Richard Ishida
> Cc: GEO
> Subject: Re: Another idea for a FAQ
> 
> Richard Ishida wrote:
> 
> >How does 'semantic' markup (ie. markup without 
> presentational bias) improve localization costs?
> >  
> >
> At least, for  translation from LTR to RTL languages. 
> Sometimes  it's also necessary to re-adapt the CSS files 
> linked to the original HTML page. All text properties 
> (text-align, margin, float ...) that has "right" or "left" in 
> their set of values, put supplementary 'troubles' 
> on the hand of the translator. If such properties are drowned 
> in the middle of others or if many styles are there just for 
> décoration, and not for layout,  it is not always easy to 
> find the RTL counterpart of the layout of the LTR page.
> Of course, the trick (brut force)  is to change any "right" to "left" 
> and vice-versa, but is it always correct? And  it doesn't  it 
> always work (e.g. margin: a, b, c, d sould be changed to 
> margin: a, d, c, b).
> As an exercise, I  have to find the right layout for the 
> arabic version of  http://www.w3.org/International/about, 
> that I've just began to translate to put on the Office site 
> (I had an older version).
> 
> Najib
> 
> >See 
> http://sidesh0w.com/weblog/2004/10/30/go_go_gadget_ethnocentri
> city/ for some discussion on this already.
> >
> >RI
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