Re: Letter spacing in Indic scripts

Have you looked at
http://www.w3cindia.in/ABNFValidSegmentationdocument.html#hori ?


On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear Indic layout taskforce,
>
> CSS3 Text defines a letter-spacing property at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#letter-spacing-property
>
> I have two questions on behalf of the i18n WG:
>
> [1] do indic scripts do letter-spacing?
>
> [2] if they do, what happens for scripts with a bar, such as Devanagari?
> Is the bar continuous or broken?
>
> I suppose another question would be whether there are any other
> idiosynchrasies involved for indic scripts, such as unequal spacing, etc.
>
> The CSS3 Text spec is at the end of the Last Call period, so the spec
> authors would appreciate a quick response on this.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
>
>

Received on Friday, 6 December 2013 18:38:28 UTC