- From: Jürgen Wössner via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:36:02 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Hi. I think I have understood the spec so far on this point. One is the question where the CSS user wants the alignment. I think that's great so far. And I think your work is extremely important and I'm very excited to be able to apply that soon. It's just a matter of the specific names of those lines where the glyphs are aligned. I know, different writing systems use different lines to align the glyphs - hanging, standing, centered ... Literally translated from German to English, we call this writing line. But baseline is a fixed term in type design. No matter what type system, there is always only 1 baseline in the metrics. Even hanging typefaces are designed to work with a baseline, even if it is not visually recognizable. This is also important so to combine different font systems in one text.  I would like it if you could access the established terms in the font metrics via CSS. So I would just call what you guys call `alphabetic`, `baseline`. There is a second point to add. If I want to trim the space around the text from the top down to baseline in the metric, as I've outlined [here](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3240#issuecomment-1443836693), `alphabetic` might be misleading. It could well be that I really don't see through it all. If so, I'll shut up from now on and look forward to the result of your work. Thank you so much. 💐 -- GitHub Notification of comment by jwssnr Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8067#issuecomment-1448750308 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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