openlibhums / openlibhums/janeway
Support for right-to-left text direction
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- Python
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Right-to-left text direction is not yet supported in Janeway's JATS XML -> XSLT -> HTML workflow.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add support for marking text direction in the JATS XML such that the HTML output has appropriate dir attributes specifying right-to-left text direction.
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Research direction
Trace Janeway's JATS XML -> XSLT -> HTML workflow to find where text direction is represented and where HTML attributes are produced. Done means right-to-left direction marked in JATS XML results in appropriate dir attributes in the HTML output.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html, xml
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100