Re: [css-text] I18N-ISSUE-333: 'letter-spacing' and Arabic

We already have the following text[1]:

> If it is able, the UA may apply letter-spacing to cursive scripts by translating the total spacing distributed to a run of such letters into some form of cursive elongation for that run. Otherwise, if the UA cannot expand text from a cursive script without breaking its cursive connections, it must notapply spacing between any pair of that script's letters at all.

Is this good enough, or do you have any suggested changes?

[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#letter-spacing


/koji


On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:19 AM, Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/24/14 6:31 PM, Phillips, Addison wrote:
>> State:
>>     OPEN WG Comment
>> Product:
>>     CSS3-text
>> Raised by:
>>     Addison Phillips
>> Opened on:
>>     2014-01-23
>> Description:
>>     Section 8.2: The section on "tracking" ('letter-spacing') should probably reiterate that tracking does not break cursive/ligating scripts like Arabic. 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> Yes. May be add an exemple. Here in image:
> <letter-spacing.jpg>
> 
> 
> Source: given the style
>  p    { letter-spacing: 1em; }
> 
> <p  style="font-family:'Arial'">
> المغرب
> </p>
> 
> <p>
> اﳌغرب
> </p>
> 
> In the first <p>, letters Lam ل and Meem م are two characters (U+0644 and U+0645)
> In the second <p>, they are ligated in one (U+FCCC).
> 
> 
> Note: "font-family:Arial"  is here to avoid some browsers default rendering with ligature anyway.
> 
> 
> 
> /Najib

Received on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 07:55:42 UTC