15683 2012-01-24 00:25:45 +0000 It is very tedious and almost impossible to properly display poetry that is typographically metered, specially in Arabic since it needs strict typographical alignments. The fact that Arabic readers almost always come across poetry on daily bases as they b 2012-08-23 17:30:04 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor dave.null bhawkeslewis eoconnor mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 63027 0 contributor 2012-01-24 00:25:45 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: It is very tedious and almost impossible to properly display poetry that is typographically metered, specially in Arabic since it needs strict typographical alignments. The fact that Arabic readers almost always come across poetry on daily bases as they brows the net makes this a requirement. That would also almost be true for most languages which use poetic proverbs in articles and writings to convey ideas and thoughts. I can think of two solutions at this time to properly display this: 1. An HTML tag with attribute <poetry stanza="value">. From there, a CSS3 selector can easily refine the presentation form of the piece. 2. Basically the tedious way of using <p> and/or <table> and/or <li> and/or <span> etc then applying a presentation formatting on selectors. Not an eloquent way at all to say the least. By introducing the new <poetry> tag and starting with "stanza" attribute, I am sure that the tag will grow interest for further refinement and more attributes will be introduced for the tag to be an efficient way of representing that kind of literature in any kind of language. to contact: (ismail) [at] (tabtabai) (dot) (org) Posted from: 219.120.138.253 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7 63038 1 bhawkeslewis 2012-01-24 07:27:11 +0000 (In reply to comment #0) > It is very tedious and almost impossible to properly display poetry that is > typographically metered, specially in Arabic since it needs strict > typographical alignments. Can you provide an example? (You appear to be the originator of the phrase "typographically metered".) > The fact that Arabic readers almost always come > across poetry on daily bases as they brows the net makes this a requirement. > That would also almost be true for most languages which use poetic proverbs in > articles and writings to convey ideas and thoughts. > I can think of two solutions at this time to properly display this: > 1. An HTML tag with attribute <poetry stanza="value">. From there, a CSS3 > selector can easily refine the presentation form of the piece. > 2. Basically the tedious way of using <p> and/or <table> and/or <li> and/or > <span> etc then applying a presentation formatting on selectors. Not an > eloquent way at all to say the least. What's wrong with using <pre> when you need "strict typographical alignments" for poetry? http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html#the-pre-element 70277 2 contributor 2012-07-18 07:15:30 +0000 This bug was cloned to create bug 17905 as part of operation convergence. 72619 3 eoconnor 2012-08-23 17:30:04 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: No change. Rationale: In the absence of a reply to the questions in comment #1, <pre> seems like the solution.