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Support in catalog entries for writing direction and script #25

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
We should support/encourage authors of publications in non-Latin scripts 
to include information about the script in their catalog entries.

This is intended to facilitate clients in filtering out scripts or writing-
modes that it cannot support.

For example, some Japanese content might be formatted expecting a 
vertical text-direction, and associated right-to-left page progression.  
Smart clients should recognize that they might not be able to support this 
(for example, any WebKit-based reader cannot support vertical text), and 
perhaps filter out or prompt the user for action.

While Atom gives us the ability to describe the language of a publication, 
as a book-centric format we should provide more metadata to describe 
the intended script of the publication.  I would propose borrowing some of 
the language from CSS3:

Page progression: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/#progression

Writing-mode: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text-layout/

but presumably the actual elements would have to come from the OPDS 
namespace rather than Atom.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by liza31337@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2010 at 7:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Liza: Please contribute a rough draft of this section before the 8am Pacific 
call tomorrow, 5 May 2010.

Original comment by abdela...@gmail.com on 4 May 2010 at 6:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I don't believe this is required for 1.0, so moving to 1.1.

Original comment by liza31337@gmail.com on 4 May 2010 at 6:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I believe this should be in 1.1.

Original comment by liza31337@gmail.com on 5 May 2010 at 1:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by abdela...@gmail.com on 25 May 2010 at 5:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by abdela...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2010 at 3:29