- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:11:05 -0800
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- CC: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, www-svg@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
Doug Schepers wrote:
> Hi, Richard, Elika-
>
> Thanks for your comment. We've added wording to the spec to address
> your issue:
>
> http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.2T/publish/text.html#RelationshipWithBiDirectionality
>
> [[
> Within text content elements, the alignment of text with regards to the
> 'text-anchor' or 'text-align' properties is determined by the values of
> the 'direction' and 'unicode-bidi' properties. For example, given a
> 'text' element with a 'text-anchor' value of "end", for a 'direction'
> value of "ltr", the text will extend to the left of the position of the
> 'text' element's 'x' attribute value, while for 'direction' value of
> "rtl", the text will extend to the right of the position of the 'text'
> element's 'x' attribute value.
> ]]
>
> Please let us know right away if this satisfies your comment, or if not,
> what changes we can make to do so.
A. 'unicode-bidi' should have no effect. Remove that from your sentence.
B. This does not make the necessary normative changes to the definitions
of 'start' and 'end' for text-anchor and text-align. 'start' and 'end'
should be defined in terms of 'direction'.
~fantasai
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