- From: Geoffrey Sneddon via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:32:36 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
So, things that to me imply a single font: > All five generic font families are defined to exist in all CSS implementations (they need not necessarily map to five distinct actual fonts). User agents should provide reasonable default choices for the generic font families, which express the characteristics of each family as well as possible within the limits allowed by the underlying technology. User agents are encouraged to allow users to select alternative choices for the generic fonts. This is somewhat ambiguous, but without first reading the font matching algorithm closely I'd understand this to mean that they map to five actual fonts (see especially the parenthetical!). I'd probably right here introducing generics that user agents don't need to map to five fonts, and each can map to more than one based on element language and/or unicode range. > Any font that is so described may be used to represent the generic serif family. (And similar statements for other generics.) This to me implies that a font is used to represent the generic font family, because I'd view representation as an exclusive act in this context. -- GitHub Notification of comment by gsnedders Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1736#issuecomment-323229014 using your GitHub account
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