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Add some clarifying notes to 'unicode-bidi: plaintext'
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<h1>CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3</h1>
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<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 6 March 2012</h2>
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<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 26 March 2012</h2>
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<dl>
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<dt>This version:
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<dd><a
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href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/</a>
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<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-writing-modes-20120306/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/ED-css3-writing-modes-20120306/</a>
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<dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-writing-modes-20120326/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/ED-css3-writing-modes-20120326/</a>
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<p class=copyright><a
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href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright"
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rel=license>Copyright</a> &copy; 2012 <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/"><acronym
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title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym></a><sup>&reg;</sup> (<a
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href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><acronym
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title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</acronym></a>, <a
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href="http://www.ercim.eu/"><acronym
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title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</acronym></a>,
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rel=license>Copyright</a> &copy; 2012 <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><abbr
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title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr></a><sup>&reg;</sup> (<a
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href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/"><abbr
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title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr></a>, <a
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href="http://www.ercim.eu/"><abbr
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title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</abbr></a>,
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<a href="http://www.keio.ac.jp/">Keio</a>), All Rights Reserved. W3C <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Legal_Disclaimer">liability</a>,
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except, as with block containers, the base directionality is determined
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by following the Unicode heuristic instead of by using the &lsquo;<a
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href="#direction0"><code class=property>direction</code></a>&rsquo;
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value.
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value. <span class=note>Note that &lsquo;<a href="#unicode-bidi0"><code
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class=property>unicode-bidi</code></a>&rsquo; does not affect the
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&lsquo;<a href="#direction0"><code
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class=property>direction</code></a>&rsquo; property even in the case of
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&lsquo;<a href="#plaintext"><code class=css>plaintext</code></a>&rsquo;,
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and thus does not affect &lsquo;<a href="#direction0"><code
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class=property>direction</code></a>&rsquo;-dependent layout
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calculations.</span>
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<p class=note>Because the &lsquo;<a href="#unicode-bidi0"><code
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class=property>unicode-bidi</code></a>&rsquo; property does not inherit,
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setting &lsquo;<a href="#bidi-override"><code
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class=css>bidi-override</code></a>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<a
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href="#plaintext"><code class=css>plaintext</code></a>&rsquo; on a block
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element will not affect any descendant blocks. Therefore these values are
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best used on blocks and inlines that do not contain any block-level
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structures.
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<p>The final order of characters within in each bidi paragraph is the same
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as if the bidi control codes had been added as described above, markup had
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been stripped, and the resulting character sequence had been passed to an
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<dt id=CSS3BG>[CSS3BG]
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<dd>Bert Bos; Elika J. Etemad; Brad Kemper. <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-css3-background-20110215"><cite>CSS
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Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3.</cite></a> 15 February 2011. W3C
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Candidate Recommendation. (Work in progress.) URL: <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-css3-background-20110215">http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-css3-background-20110215</a>
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-background-20120214/"><cite>CSS
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Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3.</cite></a> 14 February 2012. W3C
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Working Draft. (Work in progress.) URL: <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-background-20120214/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-background-20120214/</a>
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<dd>Elika J. Etemad; Koji Ishii; Shinyu Murakami. <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-text-20110901/"><cite>CSS Text
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Level 3.</cite></a> 1 September 2011. W3C Working Draft. (Work in
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<dd>Elika J. Etemad; Koji Ishii. <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-text-20120119/"><cite>CSS Text
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Level 3.</cite></a> 19 January 2012. W3C Working Draft. (Work in
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-text-20110901/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-text-20110901/</a>
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-text-20120119/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-text-20120119/</a>
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css3-writing-modes/Overview.src.html

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For inline elements, this value behaves as for ''isolate'',
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except, as with block containers, the base directionality is
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determined by following the Unicode heuristic instead of by using
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the 'direction' value.
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the 'direction' value. <span class="note">Note that 'unicode-bidi'
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does not affect the 'direction' property even in the case of
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''plaintext'', and thus does not affect 'direction'-dependent
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layout calculations.</span>
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<p class=note>Because the 'unicode-bidi' property does not inherit,
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setting ''bidi-override'' or ''plaintext'' on a block element will
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not affect any descendant blocks. Therefore these values are best
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used on blocks and inlines that do not contain any block-level
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structures.
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<p>The final order of characters within in each bidi paragraph is the
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same as if the bidi control codes had been added as described above,
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markup had been stripped, and the resulting character sequence had

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