ALIGN attribute default

Glenn Adams (glenn@stonehand.com)
Thu, 13 Apr 95 22:10:48 EDT

The default value of the ALIGN attribute for paragraph like elements should
not be specified as LEFT. Rather, the default should be determined by the
bidirectional context. In the case that a paragraph contains only text from
right-to-left scripts (Arabic & Hebrew), the default alignment should be
RIGHT; otherwise, the default alignment should be LEFT. In the case that
a paragraph mixes left-to-right and right-to-left scripts, the default base
direction (and thus the alignment) should be determined according to the
directionality of the first strongly directional character. Thus if an Arabic
character preceded a Latin letter, then the default base directionality would
be right-to-left and the default alignment would be RIGHT.

Regards,
Glenn Adams