Arabic layout task force

<Shervin> https://www.w3.org/International/groups/arabic-layout/track/actions/open

Shervin: Re action-48, I received Richard’s test cases, and will look into it.

Richard: The test cases all pass, so it’s a question of looking into the test cases themselves.

Hi, Najib.

<r12a> https://github.com/r12a

Shervin: I’ll look into a solution for automating of using Richard’s picker, to avoid having to copy and paste hunders of terms.
... For action-59, I’m waiting for merging Najib’s PR and do the cleanup after that.
... It would make thins simpler.
... And everybody can sync their forks with the upstream after that.

<r12a> https://github.com/w3c/alreq/pull/65

Shervin: What I’m going to do is to tidy the HTML and validate against the validator. Two parts at the same time.

i18n checker

<r12a> https://validator.w3.org/i18n-checker/check?uri=w3c.github.io%2Falreq%2F#validate-by-uri+

Richard: We released a new i18n-checker a few days ago and it does some checks on the directions and control characters too.
... In this link above I’ve run it against the ALReq document.

<r12a> https://validator.w3.org/i18n-checker/versions

Richard: This link is the latest version.

<r12a> https://www.w3.org/International/quicktips/doc/checker.en.php

<najib> the align attribute is removed, replaced by CSS float

Shervin: I’ll add this to my tests. I might send two different pull requests to separate them.

http://store.winsoft-international.com/products/product/winsoft/tasmeem.html

Shervin: Najib, the term “Farissi” is pretty new to me.
... Is it mentioned in any source?

<Shervin> نستعليق

Najib: I’ll remove the term Farissi and only keep Nasta’liq

Richard: While doing that, you can add the translation of nasta’liq like the other terms.

Shervin: It would be nice to add more information about the example images.
... Like, for the Rabat and Maghribi example, it would be nice to know whether it is from Quran, or any specific part of it.
... So that curious readers could track down the source for more information.
... It does not have to in the main document.

<r12a> <figure>

<r12a> <img ...>

<r12a> <figcaption> ... </figcaption>

<r12a> </figure>

Shervin: It can be in the caption, in the list of sources, or other places that are not in the text.

https://github.com/w3c/alreq/blob/gh-pages/index.html#L389

Najib: Is this the correct way of referring to Wikipedia as the source?

Shervin: Referring to Wikipedia as a source needs some attention, like mentioing controbutors.
... If you put the links to these images, I can figure that out.

Richard: While doing that, having a single class name for them would help unify their size.

<Shervin> ACTION Najib Provide sources and URLs for the images

<trackbot> Created ACTION-63 - Provide sources and urls for the images [on Najib Tounsi - due 2016-09-13].

<r12a> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy#/media/File:Basmalah-1wm.png

<Shervin> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_section_of_the_Koran_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg