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Re: [CSS21] Font-family syntax

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:28:39 -0400
Message-ID: <412626B7.9090908@mit.edu>
To: Justin Wood <jw6057@bacon.qcc.mass.edu>
CC: www-style@w3.org

Justin Wood wrote:
>>     example { font-family: Trouble: A (Very) Troublesome Type Family & 
>> Interesting Prospect. ; }
>>
> Though it can be said where that method is NOT to be written based on 
> grammar/prose  it CAN be written legally syntacticly correct via quotes, 
> which makes the issue moot, in my humble opinion.

As pointed out by Etan, it makes it moot to the _sheet_ author, not the 
_parser_ author.

> where your example would be skipped do to parsing errors.

Why?  This is the issue at hand -- are there parsing errors in Etan's 
example?  It's not clear to me that there are.  If there are, should 
there be?

-Boris
Received on Friday, 20 August 2004 16:33:08 UTC

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