- From: Paul Nelson (ATC) <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:50:55 -0700
- To: Christopher Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net>, <www-international@w3.org>, <www-style@w3.org>
- CC: Andres Montano <amontano7@gmail.com>, Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com>, "Robert R. Chilton" <acip@well.com>
Chris, Can you send me use cases and explanations on how the mark is used? A use case would make this fairly simple to add/adapt in the text-emphasis area. The problem, as you know with Unicode, is that there are not always clear explanations documented on how characters are used or marked up. Regards, Paul Nelson -----Original Message----- From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Fynn Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:08 AM To: www-international@w3.org; www-style@w3.org Cc: Andres Montano; Andrew West; Robert R. Chilton Subject: [CSS3 Text] Tibetan Emphasis marks The Tibetan script emphasis characters in the Unicode Standard (U+0F35 and U+0F37) are somewhat problematic as they are defined as combining marks and so get applied to a single base glyph whereas they actually apply to whole words (Tibetan: ming) - and should be more or less be centered under that word rather than under a single Tibetan "stack" within that word. These characters may also cause problems in searching etc. if they are not ignored. Since these are emphasis marks (like the CJK "sesame" dots) it seems to me that in most cases a better solution would be to use higher level markup - so perhaps these forms should be included as values for the 'text-emphasis' property in CSS-3. The existing "circle" would probably do for the glyph shape of character U+0F37 but the one for U+0F35 may need an additional value. - Chris Fynn National Library of Bhutan
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