Chris Lilley wrote to <mailto:www-style@w3.org> on 8 August 2004 in "Re: [css3-text] Capital spacing" (<mid:182300782.20040808000317@w3.org>): > Etan wrote: > > EW> But my question is, should the > EW> spacing between the "V" and "A" (and the other upper-cased > letters) use > EW> the default glyph-widths table or the all-caps-spacing glyph-widths > EW> table? > > The latter, as it is known to be all caps. Jolly good. > This is a case where the > correct answers fall out obviously as soon as the different layers of > bytes, characters, and glyphs are separated out cleanly. I don't see what the layers have to do with the typographical tracking. Can you enlighten? > text-transform alters the glyphs that particular characters produce. > Fonts are collections of glyphs. Right (although digital fonts contain information besides the glyphs proper). Does this relate to the correct answers falling out obviously? Sorry, Chris; I'm having a brainsludge day. -- Etan Wexler.Received on Sunday, 8 August 2004 01:01:01 UTC
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