- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:03:04 +0200
- To: Dorothea Salo <dsalo@overdrive.com>
- CC: Www-Style <www-style@w3.org>
Dorothea Salo wrote: > 1. Why does the CSS2 font-stretch property accept only keywords, and not percentages? Because it is intended to ensure that things like Helvetica Condensed and helvetica are in the same font family in CSS terms. People generally got the idea of bold and italic but still often one saw font-family: whatever-condensed; font-weight: normal and so on. Font-stretch attempts to correct this. It is however part of a font selection mechanism; it is not meant for applying geometric transformations to fonts. For that, use SVG. > 2. Does CSS2 or 3 happen to have a vertical analogue to the font-stretch > property? No because there do not seem to be any 'tall' or 'short' fonts. > Quark has settings for both horizontal and vertical font scaling, though only > one of these can be set at a time (that is, you can stretch horizontally OR > vertically, but to do both you should change the font size -- which makes a > certain amount of sense). OK so you scale up preserving the aspect ratio and then you stretch asymmetrically to get the precise look? This is easy to do in SVG. CSS2 does not cover it. Incidentally, feel free to ask Quark about their forthcoming SVG support which they alluded to in a public forum some time ago. -- Chris
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