[SMIL3.0] i18n comment 3: Define direction of start and end textAlign based on text direction

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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 3: Define direction of start and end
textAlign based on text direction


 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/20070830201228.108FE4F018@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 3
> 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: The textAlign attribute defines a number of values (start, 
> end, left, right, center) that assume left-to-right text progression.
> While 'left' and 'right' seem obvious, start and end should depend on 
> text direction (which can be set by textDirection).


Working Group Resolution:
We feel that this comment is based on a miss-reading of the existing
specification. For start-aligned text, the LCWD spec explicitly states that
"text is left-aligned in the region if the effective value of the
textDirection attribute is ltr, or right-aligned otherwise", and the
definition for end-aligned text states that "text is right-aligned in the
region if the effective value of the  textDirection attribute is ltr, or
left-aligned otherwise".

Note that in the CR version of smilText, the textDirection attribute will be
replaced by the textWriteMode attribute (which expands the options available
for layout), but the essence of the support remains unchanged.

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