- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:33:19 -0700
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 03/22/2010 02:02 AM, John Daggett wrote: > > During the 3-17-2010 telecon we spoke briefly about > subscripts/superscripts: > >> <jdaggett> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Feb/0245.html >> jdaggett: one of the features that is not in the spec already relates to >> sub/superscript support. OT can support a variant glyph >> suitable for sub/superscript resizing. it's also designed to >> look and feel like the rest of the text in that context. it's >> analogous to real smallcaps vs. synthesized smallcaps >> <jdaggett> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Feb/0247.html >> <TabAtkins> character-transform: super|sub >> jdaggett/fantasai/tab: we need to way to use this OT feature if the glyphs >> are available, but simulate it with vertical-align:super when not. >> <fantasai> that's what Tab's proposal is >> <fantasai> my comment was that the property Tab proposed should also reset >> vertical-align and font-size to their initial values at parsetime >> <fantasai> the same way a shorthand does > > Fantasai, could you clarify what you mean by using a new property (e.g. > 'character-transform') as a shorthand for new property values and > font-size/vertical-align? > > Are you saying that this property is a pseudo-shorthand in that it > resets other property values but doesn't actually otherwise use their > values? Yes. ~fantasai
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