Re: i18n-ISSUE-407: Clarification of initial letter example

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:45 PM, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com> wrote:

On 27/01/15 11:11 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
> It's also worth noting that positioning may push a mark glyph beyond the
> font vertical metrics limits, e.g. below vertically stacked conjunct
> ligatures. While this results in clipping in some software, in other places
> it can result in the mark overlapping and obscuring the line below.
>
> JH
>

The CSS spec requires excluding around the glyph bounding box of an initial
letter, so at least we won't have overlapping text even if there's lots of
stuff outside the vertical metrics.

Dave