From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Fri Jun 10 2005 - 01:54:31 CDT
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> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Mete Kural
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 1:24 PM
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: RE: Arabic letters separated by markup
>
>
> >*My* opinion, supported by the silence of the Unicode Standard on the
> >topic, is that it is up to the higher-level protocol -- the
> HTML spec
> >to specify what the impact of various markup elements may have on
> >various text processes over the character content of a document. For
> >instance I would expect the sequences in
> <TD>abc</TD><TD>def</TD> to be
> >treated as distinct document elements, implying no cursive connection
> >between them (among other things), but I would expect the sequences
> ><span>abc</span><span>def</span> to be considered a single
> text element
> >for rendering purposes (barring further stylesheet effects -- a
> >stylesheet might, of course, transform spans into distinct non-inline
> >structural elements).
>
> I agree with you here Peter. There should be a clear
> definition of the impact of various markup elements on the
> Unicode text and this needs to be defined by the respective
> markup language authority. The most significant such
> authority in regards to standards such as HTML, XHTML, and
> SVG is obviously W3C. So I think there needs to be more
> specifications coming out of W3C in order to standardize the
> way HTML, XHTML, and SVG markup impacts Unicode text properties.
>
> I also agree with you that some markup elements should
> interrupt text flow such as <TD> and others such as <SPAN>
> should not interrupt text flow, hence not force Arabic
> letters to seperate from each other.
>
See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.3
It is clear that block level elements interrupt text flow and that inline
elements should not.
Jony
> Regards,
>
> Mete
>
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