- From: Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:42:33 +1100
- To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, public-svg-wg@w3.org
Hi Cam, --Original Message--: >Cameron McCormack: >> > So that means the reference image is incorrect, yes? > >Chris Lilley: >> Yes. > >So I’ve come back to looking at this test, and I am not sure that the >pass criteria are valid or that the reference image is incorrect after >all. Here is a passage from text.html#FontsTablesBaselines: > > For example, Western glyphs are aligned on the bottoms of the capital > letters, northern indic glyphs are aligned at the top of a horizontal > stroke near the top of the glyphs and far-eastern glyphs are aligned > either at the bottom or center of the glyph. Within a script and > within a line of text having a single font-size, the sequence of > alignment-points defines, in the inline-progression-direction, a > geometric line called a baseline. Western and most other alphabetic > and syllabic glyphs are aligned to an "alphabetic" baseline, the > northern indic glyphs are aligned to a "hanging" baseline and the > far-eastern glyphs are aligned to an "ideographic" baseline. > >The key here is "within a line of text having a single font-size". The >need to have a single font size for baseline alignment is mentioned in >the text.html#FontsTablesBaselines section too. > >So I would suggest either dropping text-align-07-t and text-align-08-b >back to unapproved for now, or editing them to use the correct baselines >(if people are amenable to the test being changed at this late stage). I don't understand what you're trying to say here? What correct baselines? Also, mixing font sizes and baseline sets for the different font sizes is covered pretty well in XSL-FO IIRC. Alex >-- >Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/ > > >
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