#118 stylesheets do not handle text direction

[Tom Elliott]

Present Guidelines recommend use of

<lb rend="right-to-left"/>

and

<lb rend="left-to-right"/>

to indicate text direction; however the current example stylesheets have no provision for treating these attribute values (I have grepped for both rend values across the entirety of the example stylesheets). I attach a test file.

[Tom Elliott]

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-Present Guidelines recommend use of ~~~~<lb rend="right-to-left"/>~~~~ and ~~~~<lb rend="left-to-right"/>~~~~ to indicate text direction; however the current example stylesheets have no provision for treating these attribute values (I have grepped for both rend values across the entirety of the example stylesheets). I attach a test file.
+Present Guidelines recommend use of 
+
+    <lb rend="right-to-left"/>
+
+and
+
+    <lb rend="left-to-right"/>
+
+to indicate text direction; however the current example stylesheets have no provision for treating these attribute values (I have grepped for both rend values across the entirety of the example stylesheets). I attach a test file.

[BODARD Gabriel]

I've added basic handling of left-to-right and right-to-left, but nothing for (a) other values of @rend nor (b) any escapes for unhandled values. Leaving ticket open until it's a little bit better.

Note also that Martin Holmes is doing some important work with the TEI on multi-directional texts, and we should follow this carefully. Will report here as appropriate.

[Elli Mylonas]

TEI is going to be adding ways of indicating directionality - might wait to see what they offer.

[BODARD Gabriel]

I agree we want to reviw our own usage once the TEI recommendations come on-stream, but in the meantime the error initially reported in this ticket is fixed. I would actually suggest closing this, on the grounds that it's not a bug any more. A feature request might be appropriate once Martin's recommendations appear?

[Elli Mylonas]

Sounds good, closed.