Re: [CSS Text/G.C. for P.M.] Hyphenation & ligatures

Also sprach thomas:

 > >>  fied
 > >
 > > This would be a really bad thing to do. Suppose the reader doesn't have this
 > > particular font, but does have a different font that uses U+E03C for
 > > something quite different -- such as an arbitrary dingbat or a non-Latin
 > > character, which would appear as "junk", or even an "ll" or "lm" or "bb"
 > > ligature, which would completely change the meaning of the text.
 > 
 > This is perfectly true for a web page. But say I want to print an html
 > page. I could do some replacements to improve the typographic quality.
 > I know I own the font anyway. In a private environment, doing
 > s/tt/\uE03C/ is not a problem.

I agree that private, printed environments need a touchup feature.
This is the motivation for the 'text-replace' property [1] where you
can write:

  body { font: ... ; text-replace: "tt" "\E03C" }

[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-gcpm/#text-replace

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