[csswg-drafts] Support for shearing of lines and inline elements from Pierre-Anthony Lemieux via GitHub on 2018-08-02 (public-css-archive@w3.org from August 2018)

From: Pierre-Anthony Lemieux via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 14:14:16 +0000
To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Message-ID: <issues.opened-347030989-1533219254-sysbot+gh@w3.org>

palemieux has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== Support for shearing of lines and inline elements ==
Japanese subtitles commonly use shearing of text, as illustrated below.

Not sheared:

![plain](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4871350/43588395-b2363338-966c-11e8-9389-31d84b62b9cd.PNG)

Sheared:

![shear](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4871350/43588411-b93752ca-966c-11e8-873c-4bde37983fd0.PNG)

Couple of observations:

* while shearing might not be appropriate for books, it is commonly used for subtitles

* shearing is not applied to individual characters, but instead to complete blocks -- each of the digits in 1998 is not sheared individually

* the shear angle is author-specified

* it should be possible to shear individual lines as well as groups of lines

CSS Transforms Module Level 1 `skewX()` and `skewY()` can be applied to blocks but neither to lines nor inline elements

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2983 using your GitHub account

Received on Thursday, 2 August 2018 14:14:52 UTC