- From: Jim Wise <jimw@numenor.turner.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:16:17 -0400 (EDT)
- To: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, David Perrell wrote: > Character glyphs are -- in effect -- simply inline images with a few > additional metrics. (Ideally, like PNGs with transparent background and > grayscale mask to accommodate antialiasing.) No, they aren't. The problem here is that character rendering is often context dependent. Spacing will differ based on the prior and next characters, for example, and many environments will replace some character pairs with ligatures. And this is just for latin type. Many scripts, especially mideastern scripts, have much more in depth context-sensitive rendering changes. (Different rendering of a character whether it appears at the end of a word or not, for example). -- Jim Wise jim.wise@turner.com
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