Re: bidi tests assume undefined letter-spacing behavior

On 01/07/2011 04:24 PM, Arron Eicholz wrote:
> On Friday, January 07, 2011 3:50 PM fantasai wrote:
>>
>> We do, however, require that the space between the letters must be
>> consistent: there is no allowance for varying inter-letter spacing at bidi
>> boundaries. So do we have an implementation that has consistent space
>> between the letters *and* fails the test? Because if not, there's no practical
>> reason for me to split them.
>
> Actually I see no place in the CSS spec where we say that letter spacing
> should be consistent. Granted I think it should be consistent could mean
> you always place it after the character in the text runs current direction.
> Which means the test needs to be altered.

The spec says that 'letter-spacing' specifies the spacing *between characters*.
If 'letter-spacing' is 1em, putting 2em or 0em between two adjacent characters
seems pretty obviously wrong to me.

~fantasai

Received on Friday, 4 February 2011 00:23:30 UTC