- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:54:02 +0200 (DST)
- To: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak), fahrner@pobox.com, www-style@w3.org
- Cc: davidp@earthlink.net
On Aug 10, 4:57pm, Jon Bosak wrote: > [someone] > | > I can see an advantage in allowing *any* common weight specifier. The > | > UA simply keeps two heirarchical lists of all the common weight names > | > with corresponding pointers. For example, the 'boldness' heirarchy > | > might include, successively, 'nord, ultra-black, black, ultra-heavy, > | > ultra-bold, super, heavy, extra-bold, bold, demi-bold, semi-bold, > | > demi, medium, book, roman, regular, normal.' If someone specifies > > Does anyone care that there is already an ISO standard for font > characteristics that addresses all of this? > > No? OK. Never mind. Have fun. Jon, it would be more productive to briefly summarise what this ISO standard specifies and how it helps in this instance. A compare-and-contrast with say Panose-2 would also be useful. Grumping that a standard exists but not telling us what it does and does not do gets the discussion no further forward. It would also have helped those who are not ISO-watchers to have told us the number of the standard - I presume you refer to 9541 ? Even better would be a pointer to an online copy, which you have shown is not out of the question even for ISO documents. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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