On Oct 27, 2013, at 21:35 , Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 09:05 +0100, Ivan Herman wrote: > >> I must admit I am uneasy about putting anything out of scope at this >> moment. For example, call me naïve, but my hope is that, aside from >> terminology, Arabic, Hebrew, and other rtl writing systems may not be >> all that different apart from a carefully chosen terminology. > > They aren't, although the definition of a baseline has to be made > carefully, maths (even simple numbers) need special handling, and of > course whitespace is treated very differently with the Arabic script. So > there are a lot of details to consider. Typography is about attention to > detail. Ah! Math! We should not forget that... :-) Ivan > > RenderX, as I understand it, is quite widely used for formatting (using > XSL-FO with of course embedded CSS properties) of Arabic and Chinese, > and mixed Arabic, Chinese and English such as you might find in > Malaysia. I remember a question to the XSL-FO WG at one point about > where to put the underline on a right-to-left quotation embedded in > vertical text. There's also stuff in XSL-FO for mixing e.g. Hindi and > Arabic. So there's expertise floating around not too far away, and > documents for Arabic and Hebrew typesetting would share a lot with those > for Latin script Western languages, kashida and cantillation > notwithstanding :) > > Liam > > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml > > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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