- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:53:16 +0200
- To: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>
- CC: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, <www-style@w3.org>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
On Thursday, August 19, 2010, 8:08:16 PM, Behdad wrote: BE> On 08/17/10 05:12, Jonathan Kew wrote: >> In that case, I suggest we should have a new property called "font-extend" that would take a scaling factor to be applied to the glyphs and metrics in the x-direction (or rather, along the direction of text layout, so for vertical text it would apply in the y-direction). A font-extend value of less than 1.0 would actually compress the glyphs, of course. And negative values ought to reflect the glyphs and reverse the text direction, so that <span style="font-extend: -1.0">mirror writing</span> becomes easy to express. BE> Watch out! Mirroring text that way has bidi implications. Mirror an RTL span BE> and it should be processed as LTR during bidi now. Well, no. It would look like rtl text in a mirror. With the glyphs backwards, and everything. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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