- From: Chris Lilley via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:38:12 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
There are basically two ways to go when specifying a font: 1. Fully specify a face to be used on _each run of text_ 2. Specify a bunch of independent font properties and then _combine_ them to find a matching face Option 1 is verbose, unmaintainable, and fundamentally incompatible with a tree-structured document, so CSS went for option 2 very early. Relevant early discussions (1996) - [Font-family specification](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1996Jan/thread.html#msg47) - [font specification in CSS1](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1996Aug/thread.html#msg55) -- GitHub Notification of comment by svgeesus Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3177#issuecomment-1792867134 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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