- From: Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin <aharon@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 12:57:10 -0500
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
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Thanks, looks great! Just one nit: HL1 etc. are not rules. UAX9 referes to the HLs as "clauses". So, the references to them should be something like "clause HLx of [UAX9]". On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:06 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote: > On 12/26/2013 05:58 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote: > >> Hixie filed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24006 on >> Writing Modes in the beginning of December, and I added some comments >> there. It does not seem to have been addressed yet. >> > > Thanks for punting that to the ML. > > Wrt the paragraph beginning "In general...", it has been revised: > > # In CSS, the paragraph embedding level must be set (following rule HL1) > # according to the direction property of the paragraph’s containing > # block rather than by the heuristic given in steps P2 and P3 of the > # Unicode algorithm. There is, however, one exception: when the > # computed unicode-bidi of the paragraph’s containing block is > # 'plaintext', the Unicode heuristics in P2 and P3 are used as > # described in [UAX9], without the HL1 override. > > Wrt referring to the HL* rules, the bidi spec does not appear to require > such references, only that modifications to the algorithm conform to > those rules. However I have added the references as you request to help > clarify the intent. > > Wrt using "must" everywhere, whether one agrees or disagrees with the > style, > it is not a habit of the CSS specs to do so, and statements without the > modifier are nonetheless normative per > http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-writing-modes/#conventions > > > is "the bidi control codes assigned to the end" defined anywhere? >> >> Yes, the control codes are defined under the various unicode-bidi >> values [..] But I agree that some sort of reference is needed. >> > > Since this sentence is only a few paragraphs below the section that > defines them, I haven't added a link. But all of them are now talking > about rule HL3, so this will help create that correspondance. > > I now realize, however, that the spec does not make it 100% clear for >> isolate-override whether it "combines" the isolate on the outside of >> the override or vice-versa. >> > > This is now specified explicitly. > > Comment #2 is handled separately, see thread at > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0267.htm > > Updated ED: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-writing-modes/ > > Please let me know if this sufficiently addresses the comment. > > ~fantasai >
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