- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:47:25 +0100
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- CC: Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>, Public W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On 12/10/2011 17:39, Chris Lilley wrote: > On Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 2:42:46 AM, Gérard wrote: > > GT> " > GT> It is acceptable (but not required) in CSS 2.1 if the small-caps font is a > GT> created by taking a normal font and replacing the lower case letters by > GT> scaled uppercase characters. > GT> " > GT> section 15.5 Small-caps: the 'font-variant' property > GT> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#small-caps > > GT> I propose to > > (two good changes, omitted) > > GT> 3- change "letters" to "characters": I don't see why the sentence > GT> unexpectedly mentions letters and then characters. > > Both letters and characters are incorrect here. Firstly, one can't scale a character but one can scale a glyph. Secondly, it could be misread as an actual substitution of characters (which would show up in the DOM). > " > It is acceptable (but not required) in CSS 2.1 if the small-caps font is > created by taking a normal font and replacing the lowercase glyphs by > scaled uppercase glyphs. > " Chris, I've filed this issue (replace "letters"/"characters" with "glyphs" at https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15383 Cheers, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net
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