[SMIL3.0] i18n comment 2: Define what text wrapping option means

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From: tmichel@w3.org [mailto:tmichel@w3.org] 
Sent: 23 October 2007 10:08
To: Richard Ishida
Cc: www-smil@w3.org
Subject: Re: [SMIL3.0] i18n comment 2: Define what text wrapping option
means


 Dear Richard Ishida ,

The SYMM Working Group has reviewed the comments you sent [1] on the Last
Call Working Draft [2] of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
(SMIL 3.0) published on 13 Jul 2007. Thank you for having taken the time to
review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at www-smil@w3.org if
you agree with it or not before 02 nov 2007. In case of disagreement, you
are requested to provide a specific solution for or a path to a consensus
with the Working Group. If such a consensus cannot be achieved, you will be
given the opportunity to raise a formal objection which will then be
reviewed by the Director during the transition of this document to the next
stage in the W3C Recommendation Track.

Thanks,

For the SYMM Working Group,
Thierry Michel
W3C Staff Contact

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/20070830201209.8158E4F0AF@homer.w3.org
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/


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Your comment on 8. SMIL 3.0 smilText:
> Comment from the i18n review of:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/
> 
> Comment 2
> At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0708-smil30/
> Editorial/substantive: S
> Owner: AP
> 
> Location in reviewed document:
> 8 [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/smil-text.html]
> 
> Comment: smilText defines the attribute 'textWrapOption'. No 
> indication is given as to how text wrapping works. In particular, the 
> breaking options don't match the more mature ones that appear in CSS3
> (see:http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-text-20070306/#text-wrap)


Working Group Resolution:
Since smilText is intended for a wide range of rendering agents, a very
mature processing capability (such as cited) was determined to be out of
scope -- users who need this processing should use an external text format.

Similarly, the language-based breaking of text (using hyphenation rules for
the source language) is beyond smilText's scope. 

Instead, we have followed 3GPP's lead by specifying the rendering agents
will determine how content is wrapped: either at a word boundary or within a
string of contiguous characters.

Again, if users desire more sophisticated processing, they should use an
external format, such as DFXP or (X)HTML.

A note summarizing this limitation of smilText has been added to the
specification.

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Received on Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:59:47 UTC