Hi, On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:14:22 +0600 Christopher Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tony Graham wrote: >> FYI, the W3C has a working draft of "Requirements of Japanese Text >> Layout" available at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/ > >Are there any plans for W3C to prepare this sort of document for other >non-Latin writing systems?
Around 2002-2004, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG2 had ever investigated the document layout styles around east/south/south-east Asian countries - the project "DocSII" was directed by CICC in Japan: http://www.cicc.or.jp/english/modules/system/modules/menu/main.php?page_id=39&op=change_page Please find the reports archived at: http://www.y-adagio.com/public/sc34wg2/doc_101-150/wg2n150.htm In the contrast of W3C "requirements of Japanese Text Layout" that had a preceding regional standard JIS X 4051:1995, there was few existing regional standards of document layout styles in other countries (I don't know current situation). Thus some investigations were based on the field research of the printed matters, so it was difficult for them to determine a stabilization point in the trade-off relationship between implementation cost versus the commercial requirement (how much the shops can earn additional payment by working for additional complex layout?). The output of DocSII was the technical report on DSSSL (ISO /IEC TR 19758), so I suppose it had not provided the cheap turn-key solution for the typesetting shops in these countries, at that time. BTW, their investigation had no reports of the layout features for Arabic text (of course no reports for "minority scripts"). If anybody knows the situation of standardization or investigation on Arabic document layout features, please let me know. Regards, mpsuzuki _______________________________________________ gtk-i18n-list mailing list gtk-i18n-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list