Re: Bopomofo summary updated

On 02/04/2015 01:21 PM, Edward O'Connor wrote:
>
>> The positioning of tones 2-4 should be achieved using OpenType font
>> rules[…]
>
> I disagree. As you go on to say,
>
>> I'm not aware of any such font at the moment
>
> Browser engines need to be able to do the right thing for tone marks
> whether or not the font had such info in it. Also, tone mark positioning
> isn't like other optional font features like ligatures. Their position
> isn't stylistic.

A lot of font features aren't optional. See e.g. pretty much any
Indic script.

The font layer is the right place to implement this. It is *not* a
ruby feature, it's a writing system feature that applies also to
normal inline text.

~fantasai

Received on Saturday, 7 February 2015 05:18:12 UTC