- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:05:41 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Sander Tekelenburg <tekelenb@euronet.nl>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > > A recent discussion on <www-html@w3.org> about ABBR led me[*] to believe it > would be good to add a more explicit explanation of what exactly is meant > with "small-caps" in the CSS specs, at > <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font-variant>. The first sentence at that part of the spec reads "In a small-caps font, the glyphs for lowercase letters look similar to the uppercase ones, but in a smaller size and with slightly different proportions". The definition of "Font Variant" in section 15.2.1 also says "The font variant indicates whether the text is to be rendered using the normal glyphs for lowercase characters or using small-caps glyphs for lowercase characters". -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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