I have a concern/question about the DP attribute -- (posted earlier in a
different format). Am I misreading the draft RFC?
Horizontal Tab -- DP attribute and ALIGN attributes (
The text says that the designated decimal point character can be altered
by the language content, as set by the lang attribute on enclosing
elements. Is this the best choice -- I would prefer that DP override
the existing language default. For example, when writing in a language
with a particular DP separator, I may very well want to override this
separator for tab-aligned information, such as:
* a period . for scientific numbers (overriding the language
specific separator)
* perhaps a special symbol for other data, for example
a h (used to separate hours/min in siderial notation --
e.g. 12h30), " for seconds,
* the dash for phone numbers....
Also -- what happens if you specify align=decimal, but there is no decimal
in the text to be aligned? Perhaps you should be able to specify a
default ordering in alignment, for example:
align=decimal,right
which would align to the decimal symbol, and in the absence of a decimal,
align to the right.
These concerns also apply to these attributes in TABLE elements.
Ian
-- Ian Graham ..................................... igraham@utirc.utoronto.ca Instructional and Research Computing University of Toronto