- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:27:47 -0500
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>, CSS <www-style@w3.org>
Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > Also sprach Philip TAYLOR: > > > > Here are the new properties: > > ... > > > font-variant-width: normal | proportional > > > > Isn't "proportional" the "normal" value for the > > majority of fonts; I do not understand what this > > particular pair of values sets out to achieve. > > Sorry, one value was missing from the writeup: monospace. The property > should be: > > font-variant-width: normal | proportional | monospace > > The main use case for this property is to select between proportional > and monospace digits. Today, Georgia has proportional digits and > Verdana has monospaced digits. More advanced fonts may have both > kinds. Wouldn't it make sense to use the font-variant-digits property for that switch? Switching between proportional and monospace for the whole font has different implications for non-Western scripts. e.g. while most Japanese fonts are monospaced, quite a few have proportional glyphs for kana. ~fantasai
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