- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 18:39:17 +0330
- To: Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>, Ishii Koji <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
On 12/22/2016 06:20 PM, fantasai wrote: > On 12/15/2015 03:56 AM, Xidorn Quan wrote: >> >> Actually there was a related discussion raised recently in HTML5 >> Chinese IG as well. That discussion is about whether emphasis marks >> should also be skipped for punctuations. JLReq explicitly says >> emphasis marks are not used for several punctuations (see 3.3.9 note >> 2), but the spec doesn't have anything around this. > > It was considered [1], but IIRC JLTF wanted us to include all punctuation > and make the author do the skipping because "what if the author wants > to emphasize that punctuation mark for some reason". Imho this is an > uncomfortable default for the Web because it means most publications > need to do a lot of markup mangling to get this to work right... but we > ended up deferring to that opinion. Maybe Koji remembers more, I can't > seem to find records of the discussion. > > See http://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-4/#text-emphasis-skip for > what was our last set of thoughts on the issue. > > I'm happy to re-open the discussion if there's more input to consider. > > [1] https://www.w3.org/mid/A592E245B36A8949BDB0A302B375FB4E0AC28756F2@MAILR001.mail.lan Found more info on the background for this: view-source:https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-4/Overview.bs ~fantasai
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