Re: international layout and justification

Hi again every one

font the answer to most of the questions myself in

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#justification-prop

although still interesting in wether anyone knows if Microsoft has adopted
the recommented defaults in
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#justification-prop  or if they're using
different defaults?




----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@mail.vicnet.net.au>
To: <www-international@w3.org>; <lote-notes@lists.nwjc.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:45 PM
Subject: international layout and justification


> Hi everyone,
>
> Sorry for the cross posting.
>
> I'm in teh process of putting together some web oages which introduce a
few
> aspects of HTML, XHTML and CSS internationalization that is relevant to
the
> creation of Syriac web pages using unicode.
>
> Syriac, like Arabic, utilises kashida as the default form for
> normalization. From memory, this was discussed in a W3C working darft on
> internalional layout. Microsot has implemented this in IE 5.5 and IE 6 on
> the windows platform (lathough this is dependant on the version of
> uniscribe, and having Arabic and Syriac open type fonts that support
> kashida, I think. Could be wrong on this point.)
>
> While preparing the notes on Syriac web pages, i've been doing some
> research. IE 5.5 uses a CSS property that Microsoft have added
> 'text-justify' and in IE6 they are adding 'kashida-space'. There role in
> Arabic is documented in
> http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/msdn/JustifyingText-CSS.htm
>
> The behaviour in Syriac is similar. Did some testing last night. The
> default justification for Arabic and Syriac in IE5.5 is Kashida.
>
> The discussion on 'text-justify' indicates it can have the following
> values: auto | inter-word | inter-ideograph | distribute |
> distribute-all-lines | newspaper | kashida. Of these inter-word |
newspaper
> | kashida are relevant for Arabic and by extension Syriac.
>
> 'text-justify' is detailed in
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/textJus
> tify.asp
>
>
> so finally to the question,
>
> Which langauges (scripts) would use which values? I know some of the
values
> apply to CJK and south east asian languages, and maybe indic. Does anyone
> have any details as to what languages use which values. I haven't managed
> to locate any additional information from Mirosoft's web site yet, other
> than the two references above.
>
> Also what would be the default justification for each of these languages?
>
> thanks,
>
> Andj.
>
>
> Andrew Cunningham
> Multilingual Technical Project Officer.
> Accessibility and Evaluation Unit, Vicnet,
> State Library of Victoria
> Australia
>
> andrewc@vicnet.net.au
>
>
>
>

Received on Thursday, 14 June 2001 08:04:24 UTC