#179 Text direction: GL and XSL need improving

[BODARD Gabriel]

(Related to [features:#87])

A couple of small problems with the Guidelines page on Text Direction:

• the example from traditional Leiden at the top of the page cites SEG, but the transformation example offered is from Panciera (which additionally has to reference to text-direction either in XML or transformation). I suggest making SEG explicit in the example (and if Paniera mentions directionality, giving that as an additional example above.
• the third example of XML code is not correctly transformed. The first line has no r2l arrow at the end of it (possibly because the opening <lb/> is ignored by the transformation?). It is also not clear to me whether you would expect line 2 to have a l2r arrow, because although it is the default direction, an editor might want to be explicit in a complex document like this one. Either fix the code, if so, or make explicit in the accompanying comments, if not.

Both probably quick fixes, but Tom's input might be useful in deciding what to do.

[Scott Vanderbilt]

Pushed to future release.

[BODARD Gabriel]

@paregorios: this seems like a simple enough ticket, but requires a decision before action, which presumably slowed things down. Might we have a quick chat about it before September (and therefore hope to implement it for milestone:9.2?

[BODARD Gabriel]

Ticket moved from /p/epidoc/feature-requests/132/

[Elli Mylonas]

When this ticket is addressed, the page should also have a brief mention of how to handle directionality when different languages are involved. At least a reference to the page on Mult-language texts (https://epidoc.stoa.org/gl/latest/trans-foreigntext.html )

[Elli Mylonas]

@thomaskollatz will test various configurations to see why/when the arrow indicating directionality appears or not.