WInter
WInter Symposium
(Web Internationalization & Multilinguism Symposium)
Sevilla, 20-22 November 1996
Session 3 - Authoring
Program Overview
- The Internationalization of HTML. François Yergeau. 60 minutes.
- Markup for Hyphenation. Martin J. Dürst. 5 minutes.
- Phonetic Annotation with Ruby. Martin J. Dürst. 10 minutes.
- Missing Characters and Missing Glyphs. Martin J. Dürst. 15 minutes.
- Fonts. C. Lilley. ?? minutes.
- Glyph Repository. Gavin Nicol. ?? minutes.
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Bert Bos. 20-30 minutes.
- DSSSL. Martin Bryan. 15-30 minutes.
- XML (SGML). Martin Bryan. 10 minutes.
- Panel.
The Internationalization of HTML
HTML is the "lingua franca" and the glue of the internet. HTML
internationalization is specified in the HTML i18n Internet Draft (accepted as proposed standard, soon to become an RFC).
- Reference processing model
- Full Latin-1 entity set
- Language markup
- Bidirectionality
- Forms
For an overview of the HTML I18N draft and its history,
click here.
Phonetic Annotations with Ruby
In East Asian languages, written with ideographs, smaller letters are used
as phonetic annotations called ruby. Various ways to mark up such annotations
have been discussed, a summary can be found here.
A formal proposal can be found as
draft-duerst-ruby-00.txt.
- Ruby as element or as attribute?
- Which elements should take the ruby attribute?
- Nested ruby and alternate rendering.
- How to proceed further? Should ruby be a standard component of future HTML versions?
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets level 1 (CSS1) is a simple style sheet
language for adding layout to HTML. It is expected to become a W3C
Proposed Recommendation within the next few weeks. After level 1,
there will be other levels, that should ideally have support for the
typographic traditions of many different languages.
- What are the limits of the current style properties?
(captilization, word & letter spacing, justification, etc.)
- What extra properties are needed?
- How do the style properties interact in a multilingual document?
(aligning baselines, hyphenation, list numbering, etc.)
- Link to additional
information.
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DSSSL
ISO 10179, published at the beginning of 1996, defines a Document Style
Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) that is designed to be used
with all languages. This presentation will look principally at the
language-related features of DSSSL to show how these could benefit the i18n
community.
An overview of how DSSSL can be used to format HTML documents can be found at
http://www.u-net.com/~sgml/dsssl
.htm
XML
The SGML and the Web ERB has been developing an eXtensible Markup Language
(XML) since the beginning of September. An initial draft is currently being
reviewed by members of the working group prior to its release on 18th
November. This presentation will introduce the main concepts behind the new
language, and show how i18n concerns were among the first to be considered.
An overview of the current state of the XML proposal can be found at
http://www.u-net.com/~sgml/xml.htm
Proposed Breakout Sessions
Interested by this domain? Send mail to
mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch
(Martin J. Dürst).
Last updated 8 Novemberber 1996