- From: Behnam Esfahbod via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 09:43:40 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
We discussed underline/overline methods on the 7 February 2017 weekly meeting. Here's a summary: 1) Existing practices (meaning almost any handwriting, lithography, movable type, and traditional word processors) puts underline/overline below/above all glyph parts (letter parts and diacritics). Therefore, this is a desired behavior. 2) We will keep looking for other practices and will document when we have good evidence. 3) Based on the samples collected, looks like implementations need to find a better way of calculating a position for underline/overline based on font data. Most probably, it will use ascend and descend values for the positioning. 4) In any case, if the underline/overline collides with ink, the prefferred default behavior would be to skip the ink. 5) When skipping ink, it's also preferred to make sure the underline/overline drawing does NOT form a short pieces, which could be easily mistaken with dots or diacratics. To prevent this, the drawing can be skipped for parts with a short width. -- GitHub Notification of comment by behnam Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/86#issuecomment-279963613 using your GitHub account
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