Questions coming in github issues

For your information, today sees some developments related to tracking 
W3C discussions about typography requirements on the Web.

For example, I'm currently trying to understand some details about how 
inline annotation (ruby) works in order to support reviews of CSS Ruby 
and the ruby functionality in TTML2.  I also need the information to 
compile an overview for content authors about how ruby works in browsers 
(early draft at 
http://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/ruby/styling.en.html)

To this end, i'll be raising some issues in the clreq github repo for 
points i'd like more information about.

One problem in the past has been how to keep track of such questions.

To help with that, i'll also link to those issues from 
https://github.com/w3c/typography/issues. That issue list contains 
pointers to threads of two kinds:

1. requests for information about how a script works (which my chinese 
questions will be)

2. threads discussing implementation of typographic features in specs 
and browsers.


You can access the issue list directly, and filter by script, type or 
typographic feature, in order to see what threads are pointed to. 
(Please don't raise issues in that list though without checking with me, 
since it's intended to be a tracker, rather than an actionable list.)

Or, as of today, you can get to the issue list from the 'Typography 
Index' published by the i18n WG as FPWD today at 
https://www.w3.org/TR/typography/.  (The links from that document have 
filters pre-attached that correspond to typographic features listed in 
the document.)  That document aims to provide a place for spec 
developers and browser implementers to find information about 
typographic requirements.

Hopefully this new document and the github issue list will make it 
easier to keep track of current threads about typographic features. 
Bobby Tung had asked during TPAC about how to do something along these 
lines for the Chinese topics coming out of CLReq.  Hopefully this will 
help with that.

The i18n WG welcomes suggestions for inclusion in the typography index, 
such as  useful, reliable information sources and threads to track.

hope that helps,
ri

Received on Thursday, 9 February 2017 12:54:14 UTC