Re: CSS21 9.10 Text direction (revised slightly)

I found the term I am looking for: rendered content
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/conform.html#rendered-content

So the spec should require:

"If the rendered content contains right-to-left characters, and..."

tex
Tex Texin wrote:
> 
> Hmm. I guess the comment on table layout isn't pertinent to the Unicode bidi
> algorithm so ignore that.
> 
> But a further comment on examining the document for rtl characters: Since
> content can come from the CSS style sheet, and it might contain rtl characters,
> "the document" needs to be thought of as more than the source document, since
> CSS content also needs to be considered. It is possible I use :before and
> :after to introduce some RTL characters or perhaps generate a list using Hebrew
> or Arabic (Hindi) numbers.
> 
> tex
> 
> Tex Texin wrote:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#direction
> >
> > Says:
> >
> > "If a document contains right-to-left characters, and if the user agent
> > displays these characters in right-to-left order, the user agent must apply the
> > bidirectional algorithm."
> >
> > I wonder if this requirement statement is precise and comprehensive.
> >
> > 1) Perhaps it should state what the bidi algorithm should be applied to? The
> > whole document? The smallest block containing all the right-to-left characters?
> > Only blocks containing rtl characters?
> >
> > I can imagine implementors trying to reduce the use of the bidi algorithm to
> > maximize performance, and perhaps not identifying the impact correctly. There
> > is an impact due to neutral characters being reordered, so just identifying
> > right-to-left characters is not sufficient.
> >
> > 2) Since direction can be set in CSS and direction has some impact on the
> > document even if there are no RTL characters, perhaps the requirement should
> > reference this possibility. For example table layout would be affected.
> >
> > So the requirement should perhaps read:
> >
> > "If the user agent displays right-to-left characters in right-to-left order,
> > and
> > if a document contains right-to-left characters or has any right-to-left
> > direction settings (in Markup or via CSS),
> > the user agent must apply the bidirectional algorithm to the document."
> >
> > (I know this needs tweaking but thought I would throw it out to clarify my
> > comments.)
> >
> > tex
> >
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