Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts-4] font-stretch is unfortunately named (#551)

I'd say that it's quite widely used in print stylesheets, e.g. with AntennaHouseFormatter, which DOES use font-stretch to stretch the font - more precisely i think as with font style, and weight, it chooses a matching font if there is one and synthesizes one if there isn't. I don't really see why you want font-stretch to behave differently in that regard. And it's actually technically easier than synthesizing small caps, italics, bold.

When i tried in PrinceXML, i found that the software behaved as if it had stretched the font, but font selection then failed in the resulting PDF.  I don't recall testing in Weasyprint or PDFReactor.

You aren't going to be able to measure the prevalence of something in off-web stylesheets by looking at Web statistics, unfortunately.

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