Inasmuch as Khmer – more specifically, my lack of knowledge about how to best format Khmer – made up a slide in my “XSL-FO meets the Tower of Babel” talk at the MultilingualWeb workshop in Luxembourg last week, Richard Ishida directed me to his page about Khmer, from which I found Franklin Huffman’s “Cambodian System of Writing“, and in the 153-page book, I found half a page on page numbering and section numbering in Khmer. Continue reading “Khmer pagination”
MultilingualWeb Workshop, Luxembourg
Inasmuch as I couldn’t attend the Limerick MultilingualWeb workshop last year, I’m doubly pleased to be presenting at the Luxembourg workshop on 15–16 March 2012 with a talk titled “XSL-FO meets the Tower of Babel”: Continue reading “MultilingualWeb Workshop, Luxembourg”
Reading JIS X 4051 online
Inasmuch as the “Requirements for Japanese Text Layout†Note refers (and defers) a lot to JIS X 4051, “Formatting Rules for Japanese documents”, it is helpful to also read it (or, for some of us at least, to look at the diagrams and puzzle through some of the text). You can buy the printed book from the Japanese Standards Association Web Store, or you can view (but not print) the PDF version within your browser. Here’s how: Continue reading “Reading JIS X 4051 online”
Designing Japanese documents
Inasmuch as the W3C Japanese Language Task Force’s “Requirements for Japanese Text Layout” Note was released last month, my article about it, “Designing Japanese documents“, is now available from tcworld magazine. Continue reading “Designing Japanese documents”