Re: [css3-fonts] "font-feature-settings: none" shorthand?

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:35 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote:
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>> On 05/29/2013 01:03 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
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>>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
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>>>> It would be useful to have a shorthand on font-feature-settings that is
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>>>> same as enumerating all features and specifying 'off' for each feature.
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>>> Agreed.  As a general principle, any list-valued property should accept
>>> "none".
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>> Um, this makes no sense at all. There's a 'normal' keyword, which does the
>> appropriate thing and undoes what font-feature-settings does. There's
>> absolutely no reason to have a feature that turns all OpenType features
>> unilaterally off.
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> I respectfully disagree. In discussing an early implementation of this
> property in the Apache FOP project (as an extension for XSL-FO), a user has
> asked for the ability to turn off all font features unilaterally. For their
> use cases, they offer that for experimentation with font features (in
> general), they want to experiment with behavioral results, and want to turn
> off all features without having to specify all features individually or
> have to know which features are supported and specifying them as off as a
> subset of all features.
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> These users are not in the position of creating a custom font.
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I guess I should add that I plan to support a generic 'none' value no
matter whether [css-fonts] adds it to the spec.


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>> Even if there was a reason, it'd be the 0.000000000000001%
>> use case, at which point, just make a custom font without any features.
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>> ~fantasai
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