Re: Informative Collection of Justification Resources

Richard,

As part of a side project I am working on I have been collecting documents
and making notes on syllable and word boundary identification and line
breaking in various se asian languages.

Once I have collected it together in some coherent fashion I'll pass it
along.

Andrew

On Thursday, 7 May 2015, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
> On 07/05/2015 02:30, fantasai wrote:
>>
>> Hello i18nwg,
>> The CSSWG would like to provide some guidance on correct justification,
>> however we do not have the ability to include all of this in our specs:
>> it wouldn't make sense to include normatively, and should be in an
>> independent appendix that can be updated easily and frequently as more
>> information is provided to W3C.
>>
>> We propose that the i18nwg maintain pointers to this information for
>> whatever languages it happens to have information for, either as a W3C
>> NOTE or as a wiki page. An initial set of links would go to the relevant
>> chapters in JLREQ, LatinReq, etc, the Unicode chapter on Tibetan, and
>> whatever else people think is useful for providing guidance on text
>> justification.
>>
>> Please let us know what you think, and where such a document should be
>> hosted. I can volunteer to write up an initial draft--just need to know
>> what format to write it up in. :)
>
> we already embarked upon something similar.
>
>
https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Improving_typography_on_the_Web_and_in_eBooks#Alignment_and_justification
> points to information currently available in jlreq, klreq, and llreq, and
soon clreq.
>
> https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Layout_links
> points to other useful information in non-W3C sources.
>
> during today's i18n telecon, let's talk about what else could be done.
For example, should we write up information available from the non-W3C
sources above in Note form?  Fantasai, are you able to attend the call?
>
> btw, by pure coincidence, it seems, i was contacted by someone today who
was wondering whether we can do something with his (useful) information
about Ethiopic justification (see the link i added to the second wiki page
above).
>
> ri
>
>

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