- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:48:04 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Sergey Malkin <sergeym@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, www-style@w3.org, www-font <www-font@w3.org>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Sergey Malkin wrote: > > font-weight-synthetic == auto | none > > font-style-synthetic == auto | <angle> | none > > If such option is introduced, I see need for three values: allow > synthetic styles, use specified face without faux style, or fallback > to another font if simulation is required. Although, threshold at > which point graphics system is going to use faux bold is not exactly > specified. The problem with allowing "fallback to a font family that has real italics" is that it doesn't work for scripts that typically lack italics (e.g. Japanese). For faux bold I think we should define it as representing a 700 weight font which exists if and only if no weight greater than 500 exists for a given family. Combined with weight mapping rules, that will fit with existing platform API usage (e.g. GDI). John Daggett
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