- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:10:17 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org, CJK discussion <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>
On 02/04/2015 01:21 PM, Edward O'Connor wrote: > >> The positioning of tones 2-4 should be achieved using OpenType font >> rules[…] > > I disagree. As you go on to say, > >> I'm not aware of any such font at the moment > > Browser engines need to be able to do the right thing for tone marks > whether or not the font had such info in it. Also, tone mark positioning > isn't like other optional font features like ligatures. Their position > isn't stylistic. A lot of font features aren't optional. See e.g. pretty much any Indic script. The font layer is the right place to implement this. It is *not* a ruby feature, it's a writing system feature that applies also to normal inline text. ~fantasai
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