- From: Behnam Esfahbod via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:08:33 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
IMHO, the skip-ink feature may look nice to someone not familiar with the script, but it's definitely a creation for the script, and although it may looks very fancy, it's not based on existing practices and could be a totally different concept from what is already known as underline, which is to draw a line below the letters. In Arabic script, letters don't "sit" on a "baseline" (and then underline drawn under the baseline), but letters fill-in a space, a band, and the underline (overline) goes below (above) that space/band. So, "underline" does NOT strikethrough every single dot or (to put it in Latin-script definitions) hanging letters, or skip-ink at them. The position of the underline should be fixed, instead, to have minimum collision. There's plenty of evidence of this behavior in manuscripts, lithography, and movable type. We are addressing this definition/behavior in ALReq. -- GitHub Notification of comment by behnam Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/727#issuecomment-277100108 using your GitHub account
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