Re: [SMIL3.0] i18n comment 7: vertical text support

 Dear Richard Ishida ,

The SYMM Working Group has reviewed the comments you sent [1] on the Last
Call Working Draft [2] of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
(SMIL 3.0) published on 13 Jul 2007. Thank you for having taken the time to
review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at [email protected] if
you agree with it or not before 02 nov 2007. In case of disagreement, you
are requested to provide a specific solution for or a path to a consensus
with the Working Group. If such a consensus cannot be achieved, you will
be given the opportunity to raise a formal objection which will then be
reviewed by the Director during the transition of this document to the
next stage in the W3C Recommendation Track.

Thanks,

For the SYMM Working Group,
Thierry Michel
W3C Staff Contact

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected]
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/


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Your comment on 8. SMIL 3.0 smilText:
> Comment from the i18n review of:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/
> 
> Comment 7
> At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0708-smil30/
> Editorial/substantive: S
> Owner: AP
> 
> Location in reviewed document:
> 8 [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/smil-text.html]
> 
> Comment:There is no way to deal with vertical text with the various
> layout/styling options?


Working Group Resolution:
While we feel that for most implementations, the specification of vertical
positioning is beyond the scope of smilText, we have decided to  provide
support for a textWriteMode attribute as a replacement for textDirection.
The attribute is based on a subset of XSL 1.1 functionality. This
attribute will provide a hint to user intentions. As with XSL 1.1, at
least one writeMode must be supported.

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