- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:12:44 +0900
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>, "'Chris Lilley'" <chris@w3.org>, "'Doug Schepers'" <schepers@w3.org>, <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Hello Richard, The title includes "Tiny", but the address doesn't. Wouldn't it be better to have a tutorial for SVG, and explain Tiny-specific stuff where necessary, or alternatively to use the address http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-svg-tiny/ ? Regards, Martin. At 08:06 08/11/08, Richard Ishida wrote: > >Chaps, > >I figured that while the information was still fresh in my brain after >doing all the tests, I should write a tutorial on how to use the bidi >features of SVG Tiny. > >Thought I'd let you know that I'm doing so. You can find the text so far at > >http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-svg/ > >I'm building it off a similar tutorial for XHTML, and I'm about half way >through at the moment. > >I hope my SVG examples are ok. I'm no expert. > >hth >RI > > >PS: Chris, I did think about and look again at what we discussed on the >phone wrt first character determining direction and need for unicode-bidi >on svg tag, and I believe I was right. I've written the tutorial on that >basis. Unicode-bidi embed is only needed for tspans, although unicode-bidi >override can be used effectively on text or textArea elements, I believe. >This is how CSS works, too. (Elika clarified some of these things in her >discussions with Doug based on her experience writing the CSS stuff.) See >for example, in the SVG Tiny text "For other cases, such as when using >right-to-left languages, it may be sufficient to add the 'direction' >property to the rootmost 'svg' element, and allow that direction to inherit >to all text elements, as in the following example..." (no mention of >unicode-bidi, on purpose) and "For the 'direction' property to have any >effect on an element that does not by itself establish a new text chunk >(such as the 'tspan' element in SVG 1.2 Tiny), the 'unicode-bidi' >property's value must be embed or bidi-override." (again referring >specifically to inline elements rather than block elements). > > > > >============ >Richard Ishida >Internationalization Lead >W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) > >http://www.w3.org/International/ >http://rishida.net/ #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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