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Arabic layout telecon

14 Mar 2017

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Attendees

Present
najib, Shervin, r12a-limechat
Regrets
Behnam
Chair
Shervin
Scribe
Shervin

Contents


<najib_> Sorry, reconnecting

https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/102

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<scribe> ScribeNick: Shervin

Najib: There is a section in the document for special cases. The question is that if we want to have the vertical text in there as well.

<najib> http://w3c.github.io/alreq/#h_paragraphspecial

<r12a> https://app.box.com/s/i4j6xx6kn6gu5nt2ha5ynno7qemoxlq4

https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/issues/81#issuecomment-285406191

<r12a> Najib, we muted you - let us know when you can rejoin

<najib> https://app.box.com/files/0/f/0/1/f_147106012909

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uZS2GUGGrok/UhKUyqF9z0I/AAAAAAAAAHQ/IuWnxwxNn0A/s1600/c1.jpg

r12a: Some situations is that we have horizontal text and it's just rotated (e.g. book spine)
... in some other cases you're mixing Arabic with Chinese or Mongolian written vertically.

https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/vertical-text/index.en

r12a: There are complexities when mixing these scripts if vertical Arabic is written down the page
... issues with line-breaking, etc.

Shervin: We need to distinguish between two parts of this; one, the vertical behaviour of text in Arabic as used in different contexts; margin-writing, table headers and footers, etc.
... the second part is how vertical Arabic is interacting with other vertically written scripts.

<najib> +1

r12a: How about the cinema signs? Any other examples of the sort?
... because CSS has a provision of that sort; e.g. https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/vertical-text/index-data/upright-ar-hi.html
... Cinema signs are like the CSS behaviour with separate letters; top to bottom.

ACTION r12a To Reach out to Uighur experts regarding figure 9 of vertical text article

<trackbot> Created ACTION-88 - Reach out to uighur experts regarding figure 9 of vertical text article [on Richard Ishida - due 2017-03-21].

Najib: There might be common implemenations of a bahaviour and it's hard to change.

Shervin: There might be cases that the historical exampeles of a use-case of script which...
... which might behave differently that the software implementation of them.

Najib: Arabic vertical text implementation from W3C point of view is at risk since there are not enough good implementations.

ACTION Najib Produce a draft for the vertical text section

<trackbot> Created ACTION-89 - Produce a draft for the vertical text section [on Najib Tounsi - due 2017-03-21].

<najib> https://app.box.com/s/4ceubjnvffqrf0u9dgqzi5ap5nwx0e1k

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