- From: Chris Lilley via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:29:54 +0000
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@kojiishi wrote > IIRC whatwg tried to change <sup> and <sub> to use font-variant-position but they gave it up. We might want to investigate more before reaching to a conclusion. They did, and IIRC we asked them not to, because [`font-variant-position`](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#font-variant-position-prop) uses the OpenType `subs` and `sups` features to enable the use of font-designer-created subscript and superscript glyphs instead of scaling regular glyphs. Where those glyphs exist, it gives a typographically superior result. For **one level** of subscripting or superscripting, only. While HTML can have ```html <p><sub>Many<sub>levels<sub>of<sub>subscripting</sub></sub></sub></sub></p> ``` -- GitHub Notification of comment by svgeesus Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5518#issuecomment-701358868 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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