- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:25:29 +1300
- To: "Paul Nelson (ATC)" <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
Paul Nelson (ATC) wrote: > Why do you want to specify where in the box the glyph is put? Let the > font designers and font infrastructure take care of the right place > according to the rules that the experts for each language understand. > > Existing systems (at least Windows and Apple) allow for vertical > substitution of glyphs in the fonts when writing in vertical layout so > glyphs are correctly placed automatically. We don't need to specify this > in our specs. We simply need to allow UAs continue to do the right thing > as they have done for years. Paul, there's no question about specifying how punctuation glyphs should be drawn: that's clearly outside the scope of CSS. What's being discussed is how the typical placement of punctuation within the glyph box affects punctuation trimming behavior. ~fantasai
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