Re: bidi and the initial current text position

I expect that "base writing direction" is intended to be equivalent to
"paragraph embedding level" as used by UAX#9, so it sort of says it in what
you cite below.

G.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:

> Glenn Adams:
> > Perhaps Batik is not correctly assigning the paragraph embedding level.
> > Since SVG doesn't have a paragraph construct per se, I would expect the
> > direction property on the <text/> element to determine the paragraph
> > embedding level. In Cameron's example, that was "rtl", which would make
> the
> > paragraph embedding level 0, not 1.
>
> Just a quick note to say that I believe that’s the intention: that
> <text> is treated like a block level element, and direction:rtl should
> affect the paragraph embedding level, while for direction to have any
> effect on <tspan>s unicode-bidi:bidi-override would be required.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#DirectionProperty says:
>
>  This property specifies the base writing direction of text and the
>  direction of embeddings and overrides (see ‘unicode-bidi’) for
>  the Unicode bidirectional algorithm. For the ‘direction’ property
>  to have any effect on an element that does not by itself establish
>  a new text chunk (such as a ‘tspan’ element without absolute
>  position adjustments due to ‘x’ or ‘y’ attributes), the
>  ‘unicode-bidi’ property’s value must be embed or bidi-override.
>
> which doesn’t explicitly state that <text> is to be considered the
> paragraph, but I think it makes sense.
>
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