- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:46:20 +0200
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, Peter Krautzberger <peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org>
- CC: "public-houdini@w3.org" <public-houdini@w3.org>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Hello Alan, Peter (again apologies for the delayed reply) Thursday, July 30, 2015, 4:23:09 PM, you wrote: > On 7/30/15, 7:15 AM, "Peter Krautzberger" <peter.krautzberger@mathjax.org> >>It looks like this would provide some global font metrics, but not the >>metrics of individual characters/strings. Is that correct? >> >>That would be helpful, particularly the baseline information, but it >>would not be sufficient for a use case like mathematical layout. > Not global - it’s giving the results from the first line box. Would there be a way to iterate over the line boxes, under your proposal? > But you are > correct, this would not be sufficient for mathematical layout. It’s a step > towards what you need, satisfying simpler use cases. I agree it might satisfy simpler use cases, but unless it is extensible to cover the mathematical layout use case it is not a step towards enabling it - it is a step in a different direction that does not address the use case. -- Best regards, Chris Lilley Technical Director, W3C Interaction Domain
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