- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:59:00 -0500
- To: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, W3c I18n Group <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>
Tex Texin wrote: > fantasai wrote: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-CSS21-20030915/text.html#q9 > ... > > The problem is best avoided by keeping start and end tags close to the text: > > by not putting spaces at the start and end of inline elements. > > The FAQ that the GEO group wrote on this suggested "remove all space before the > end tag of the inline element, or remove the dir attribute (if appropriate)." > > Here it makes sense to remove unnecessary embedding, not to remove explicit > overrides. In this example, yes, because B is one character -- and in any case, it's not rtl. However, I believe the example was intended to represent more complex character sequences in which an embedding may well be necessary. An Arabic quotation with a Latin name mentioned in the middle, for example. > Also, the key impact is on spaces before end tags, not beginning spaces. some<rtl> TEXT</rtl> where does that first space go? ~fantasai
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