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Meeting: Timed Text Working Group Teleconference
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Date: 04 December 2014
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Present: glenn, pal, Thierry, Andreas, nigel, jdsmith, mike
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chair: nigel
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Regrets: Frans
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scribeNick: nigel
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Topic: This meeting
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nigel: is there AOB?
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nigel: We should mention the ITU-R WP6B liaison
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Topic: IMSC 1 transition to CR
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nigel: Pierre and I met the Director and plh and Thierry yesterday to discuss transition of IMSC 1 to CR.
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nigel: [result not minuted]
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action-333?
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action-333 -- Pierre-Anthony Lemieux to Create a one pager to cover the plan for the director's meeting for taking imsc1 to cr. -- due 2014-11-27 -- PENDINGREVIEW
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/actions/333
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close action-333
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Closed action-333.
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tmichel: The document will be published on Dec 9 and then I'll send the call for implementation announcement
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... on the same day. It will also be advertised on the W3C homepage.
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... The webmaster has approved the document today.
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... (so it is now frozen)
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nigel and pal: Thanks everyone for the work put into this document.
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glenn: Congratulations.
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pal: The next step is to start compiling our test suite and test material. I plan to translate the DECE
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... submission into what I think is valid IMSC 1 documents - primarily a change to namespace.
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... Also I'm going to reach out to implementors. Would the group also be interested in a more formal
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... message or template message to send to those who are interested. How do we proceed?
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tmichel: The Call for Implementations is sent out to the chairs and ac-forum and will be published on the W3C homepage.
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... That will be done on the day of publication. We can take that message and send it to whomever we want.
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... We need to wait until publication.
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pal: Does that make it easy for people who want to contribute to know who to contact?
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tmichel: I'll send a link. Basically it says the spec is now in CR and invites participation for implementation.
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... It also says how to feedback to the public mailing list.
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pal: Thank you. Also there are Simon's outstanding comments that have been deferred. Can we discuss that
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... next week?
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nigel: Okay.
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Topic: Action Items
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action-356?
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action-356 -- Nigel Megitt to Request review of ttml2 pending review issues from group -- due 2014-12-04 -- PENDINGREVIEW
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/actions/356
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close action-356
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Closed action-356.
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nigel: I should list the issues that have been implemented since last week, for review on 18th December,
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... a similar timescale.
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glenn: The list is: 21, 213, 236, 237, 285, 286, 294. Those are all the new ones since last week.
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action-355?
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action-355 -- Glenn Adams to Resolve duplication between issue-357 and issue-229 -- due 2014-12-04 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/actions/355
15:18:01 [nigel]
glenn: I've been focusing on the issues so I've not done work on this AI or any of the others.
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action-354?
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action-354 -- Mike Dolan to Investigate formal contact at arib -- due 2014-11-27 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/actions/354
15:18:50 [nigel]
mike: Status is: I reached out to the executive director of ARIB and he's going to get back to me.
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... Somewhat unrelated, a colleague from Toshiba indicated some other practical aspects of the ARIB work
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... so that's interesting too. It looks like another 6 months to a year before it's out for basic UHDTV.
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... Hopefully before the holidays we'll have specific logistics for how to work with them to add
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... the extensions to TTML2.
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Topic: Issues
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issue-21?
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issue-21 -- window anchor points not supported? -- pending review
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/21
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glenn: This is about positioning the root container region more flexibly, or other regions relative to it.
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... I'm proposing a new tts:position style attribute fairly closely related to the backgroundPosition property
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... in CSS 3 image backgrounds and borders. For example you could say "position the bottom edge of the
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... region 20% above the bottom edge of the container region".
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... So you could say 10% bottom, or center, which would center the region in its container region.
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... Take a look at that - I think it will be interesting. I've defined it so that if you have both tts:origin and
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... tts:position then in a TTML2 context you'd ignore tts:origin and use tts:position, otherwise you can
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... still use tts:origin as a fallback. The presentation in that case may end up different of course.
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ack pal
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pal: Do we really need this feature? Positioning has been problematic for a number of implementors in
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... the past so I'm concerned about the complexity. What is the use case?
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glenn: I'm responding to the issue - someone requested anchor points so I've provided a solution.
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pal: This issue was opened in 2008.
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glenn: We should bear in mind that there are general uses for TTML2 not just captioning and subtitling.
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... There are features that need similar features. We shouldn't confuse implementation complexity with
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... syntax complexity. Many browsers implement the CSS feature too, so there are implementations.
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ack mike
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mike: How would this work? If you have overflow, extent etc what would happen? Would the anchor remain
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... where it was set. That needs to be addressed.
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glenn: This only addresses position of the region, not extent or overflow, which are separate.
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... In order to compute the position you have to have resolved the extent already. The overflow issue
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... is independent of positioning and sizing. So this is only related to position.
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mike: I think the combination of the two could result in some interesting effects depending on how it is
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... defined.
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glenn: There are some extensions coming to the extent attribute, including the ability to say it should be
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... computed so that the result is contained in the outer containing block, for example if you're sizing the
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... root container region to ensure it fits in the available area of the related media object, and needs to be
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... in the center, you'd specify extent="contain" and position="center" and the semantics would work
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... alongside another new parameter storageAspectRatio which constrains the related media object's
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... shape. Then the root container region is positioned correctly.
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mike: I think the original issue (could have been me, I'm not sure!) needs to be mapped from 708 semantics
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... into this, whatever we end up doing. I share some of pal's concerns re complexity.
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glenn: I agree, and would point out that it's bad design in my opinion to throw out possible features early
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... in the process. It's better to propose solutions that can be considered. As the process moves forward
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... we can see if they will be implemented and do what is needed, rather than cutting them out too soon.
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... This also establishes IPR precedent and commitment by putting them into the FPWD even if they don't
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... end up in the final version. This is the wrong time to discuss complexity.
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ack atai
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atai: We discussed anchor points in the EBU group some years ago with Sean Hayes. We mostly discussed
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... positioning of the region within the root container. We didn't talk about positioning the root container
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... in relation to the media object. Just a note. I'm not sure if we have an option for simplification there.
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glenn: THere are three applications: 1) positioning the root container region wrt the display or the media object.
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... For example a 16:9 display showing a 2:1 media - you may want to position the subtitles in the black
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... bar beneath the video.
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... 2) Positioning the region within the root container region.
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... 3) Positioning background images relative to content or a region. The border rectangle, padding
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... rectangle and content rectangle need to be considered.
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issue-213?
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issue-213 -- Advance notice of deprecation for textOutline -- pending review
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/213
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glenn: There's no action - I don't propose that we don't deprecate textOutline. I'll be drafting the
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... orthogonal text shadow feature, but they're independent of each other.
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... It's already in TTML1 so I propose to keep it.
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mike: As long as we end up having the 708 features that can't be emulated with textOutline (drop shadow support).
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glenn: The way we defined textOutline is that it extends perpendicular to the tangent of the outline of the
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... glyph at any given point, inner or outer. textShadow is an x-y offset vector that translates the outline
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... without changing its size.
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mike: My concern isn't textOutline but making sure we have text shadow.
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courtney: I think that means you won't be able to support all the FCC regulations in TTML.
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glenn: I'm proposing not deprecating, so both are available, and I believe it will support all of the options.
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... We will need to go through all of the 708 edge styles and verify that they can be achieved.
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PROPOSAL: Close this issue.
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close issue-213
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Closed issue-213.
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issue-236?
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issue-236 -- Character spacing, i.e. letter-spacing -- pending review
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/236
15:42:17 [nigel]
glenn: this allows introducing tracking in the same way as CSS letter spacing. I've introduced it.
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issue-237?
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issue-237 -- Inline space -- pending review
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/237
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glenn: This is similar - inline space allows the width of an inline box that contains some glyphs,
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... for example a span with some content in it within a paragraph. I might want to say 14% of the region
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... width, etc. It turns out that in CSS and XSL-FO there are both width and height properties that apply
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... to content elements however the semantics are such that for inline non-replaced elements like span,
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... width and height are ignored! So, what to do? It turns out there's a nice mechanism in CSS which I'd
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... overlooked for a while, called display:inline-block. While you can't say that an inline block is a
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... particular width you can say that a block in an inline context is a particular width and height. So I
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... introduced those concepts, and said that they magically turn spans into inline blocks to which width
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... and height can apply. I've tested it in various browsers and it does exactly what you'd think it does.
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issue-285?
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issue-285 -- Align rendered rows within a region to each other, and the set to the region -- pending review
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/285
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glenn: This is the long standing EBU request for multiRowAlign. We've played around with some options.
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... We looked at flexbox, but I recently realised that the inline block mechanism I just described can
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... satisfy the same requirement. E.g. A paragraph with a single span in it, the p being the whole width of
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... the root container region, and you want to centre the text, but align any broken lines left or right to
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... each other within that centre-aligned paragraph. The inline block mechanism allows that too.
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... You can specify a separate alignment on the content of the span and that will allow two alignments,
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... one to the content of the paragraph and the other to the span. My experiments on browsers show
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... this works as desired. If you specify a textAlign on span, which is new, then it results in the promotion of
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... the span to an inline block for display purposes. That would allow for example left justified lines in a
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... center aligned paragraph.
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ack atai
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glenn: This separates out the concepts so the existing semantics don't have to change.
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atai: This is an interesting approach that the EBU group should review. I'm not sure it matches the intended
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... presentation - does it align multiple lines of text with the longest line in the group? For example
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... a centred first (and longest) line, with the second line right aligned to it? Would this work?
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glenn: I'm not sure. I need a written down sample or example to check. My proposal does work when
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... the line breaks are defined with br elements. If two lines are wrapped in a span with textAlign="right"
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... and contained in a paragraph with textAlign="center" then it would first layout the block right aligned
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... and then centre the whole block as the paragraph. So this would have the result you want.
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atai: ok
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glenn: I'd be interested in scenarios where this might not work, according to my reading of the EBU spec.
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issue-286?
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issue-286 -- Extend the background area behind rendered text to improve readability -- pending review
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/286
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glenn: I fixed that by allowing padding to be assigned to a span, and saying if done, it must use
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... box-decoration-break:clone semantics.
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issue-294?
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issue-294 -- Style attribute to prevent overflow by shrinking text to fit on a line -- pending review
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/294
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glenn: This is one that I believe John Birch specified and I said that the proposal was about content
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... fitting, e.g. automatically reducing the font size to fit the content. Nobody in CSS land or elsewhere
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... is doing that, so it would be highly complex to implement. However the region can now be shrink-fit
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... to the content. I've proposed a new value for tts:extent: "fit-content" that comes out of a CSS3 spec.
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issue-307?
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issue-307 -- Conformance language and processor profile rather than content profile. -- pending review
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http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/tracker/issues/307
15:56:37 [nigel]
nigel: Since relevant changes have been made I propose to close this with no further action.
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close issue-307
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Closed issue-307.
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Topic: AOB
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nigel: Please note the liaison from ITU-R WP 6B which came in earlier today and went to member-tt.
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nigel: They would like a liaison I think, want to know about our work on WebVTT and IMSC 1 and how
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... they relate to each other. They also have some detail questions on IMSC 1.
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pal: I'm happy to draft a first response on those IMSC 1 questions.
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Action: pal Draft response to ITU-R liaison re IMSC 1 questions.
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Created ACTION-358 - Draft response to itu-r liaison re imsc 1 questions. [on Pierre-Anthony Lemieux - due 2014-12-11].
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glenn: I notice the liaison also mentions the ARIB-TT development.
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nigel: Yes, I encourage everyone to have a look at the liaison document.
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-courtney
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-glenn
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-pal
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-Andreas
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-mike
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-nigel
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nigel: For next week we have 1 hour set aside and a lot of issues to close on TTML2, hopefully, so in the
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... interests of time please could everyone discuss them offline on the reflector as much as possible, so
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... we only have to discuss the minimum number of questions?
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[adjourns meeting]
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-Thierry
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Attendees were +1.858.882.aaaa, glenn, mike, pal, Thierry, Andreas, nigel, jdsmith, +1.408.771.aabb, courtney
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