ISSUE-2348: Last Call Comment: direction property and the effect on text elements

Last Call Comment: direction property and the effect on text elements

State:

OPEN

Product:

SVG 1.1 F2 Last Call

Raised by:

Erik Dahlström

Opened on:

2010-07-06

Description:

From the definition of the 'direction' property[1]:
[[ For the ‘direction’ property to have any effect, the ‘unicode-bidi’ property's value must be embed or bidi-override. ]]

This is misleading and wrong, and breaks testcases. A better definition is in SVG Tiny 1.2 [2]:

[[ For the 'direction' property to have any effect on an element that does not by itself establish a new text chunk (such as the 'tspan' element in SVG 1.2 Tiny), the 'unicode-bidi' property's value must be embed or bidi-override. ]]

Proposed edit for 1.1F2:

[[ For the 'direction' property to have any effect on an element that does not by itself establish a new text chunk (such as a 'tspan' element without absolute position adjustments due to 'x' or 'y' attributes), the 'unicode-bidi' property's value must be embed or bidi-override. ]]


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#DirectionProperty
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/text.html#DirectionProperty

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1. SVG/profiles/1.1F2/DoC disco.xsl,1.4,1.5 dump.html,1.3,1.4 (from cvsmail@w3.org on 2011-05-04)
2. SVG/profiles/1.1F2/DoC getxml.html,NONE,1.1 disco.xsl,1.3,1.4 dump.html,1.2,1.3 dump.xml,1.1,NONE (from cvsmail@w3.org on 2010-08-02)
3. SVG/profiles/1.1F2/DoC disco.xsl,1.2,1.3 dump.html,1.1,1.2 (from cvsmail@w3.org on 2010-07-29)
4. Minutes July 6 2010 SVG WG telcon (from anthony.grasso@cisra.canon.com.au on 2010-07-07)
5. Re: ISSUE-2348: direction property and the effect on text elements [SVG 1.1 F2 Last Call] (from ed@opera.com on 2010-07-06)
6. SVG/profiles/1.1F2/master changes.html,1.67,1.68 text.html,1.25,1.26 (from cvsmail@w3.org on 2010-07-06)
7. ISSUE-2348: direction property and the effect on text elements [SVG 1.1 F2 Last Call] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-07-06)

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