Re: ligature formation across text chunks

Cameron McCormack:
> For letter-spacing, css3-text says:
> 
>   This property specifies the minimum, maximum, and optimal spacing
>   between grapheme clusters.
> 
> and does not mention ligatures.  It sounds like for compatibility with
> CSS text layout we should not disable ligaures with letter-spacing.
> 
> css3-text has a font-kerning property, which is similar to our kerning
> property, but which doesn’t take lengths: it only has values auto,
> normal and none.  Ligature formation is not mentioned in that property’s
> definition, either.

Which is to say: maybe we should reconsider the rule that ligatures
can’t be formed when these properties are used.

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Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/

Received on Thursday, 19 May 2011 22:20:11 UTC