- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:28:00 +0200
- To: suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
On Thursday, April 21, 2011, 10:31:37 AM, suzuki wrote: st> Dear Sirs, st> I'm sorry asking a question which is not directly st> related with SVG. Is there any maintained list of the scripts st> that have "hanging-baseline" feature? It may be that the Unicode consortium has such a list (they list scripts, but I don't know if they add baseline information). It may be better to ask this on the www-font@w3.org mailing list. st> SVG 1.1 Text: st> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#FontsTablesBaselines st> mentions about Devanagari, Gurumukhi and Bengali. st> Also it mentions that southern Indic and southern-east st> Asian scripts are using alphabetical baseline, but st> without concrete names of the scripts. st> Looking at the code charts of ISO/IEC 10646 (I've not st> checked real typesetted text) and lookup the scripts st> including the glyphs with long horizontal stem on the st> top, I guess, the hanging baselines are used by: st> Devanagari, Bengali, Gurumukhi, Kannada, Tibetan, st> Limbu, Sundanese, Meetei Mayak, Syloti Nagri. st> Regards, st> mpsuzuki -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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