Quick question for #HTML boffins: we have a table in an otherwise-English-language document (<html lang="en">) with Toki Pona text in the left column and its English translation in the right column. If we do this:
<colgroup>
<col lang="tok">
<col>
</colgroup>
...will that correctly mark all of the cells in the left column as being in tok while leaving the right column in en?
(Other advice about parallel translations welcome - we learned HTML in the 1990s, all of this is new to us.)
Edit: We've been told that the systems to determine language only look at parent elements, and <col> is not actually a parent element - so instead we're going to mark each Toki Pona-language cell with lang="tok" because we know that'll work. Thanks, y'all!
@Packbat @Satsuma yeah it's the sort of thing i wouldn't have been surprised if it had worked but i checked the spec and there doesn't appear to be anything to support it
probably at least in part because it could create a weird conflicting situation where the HTML language and the XML language differ
@Lady @Satsuma Aha! There we go, then - I'll delete that and just put the
lang="tok"in each cell's element, then. Thanks!