- From: Paul Nelson (ATC) <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 07:53:52 -0800
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: <www-style@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
If font designers do not follow conventions, their glyph would be trimmed out. Thus, CSS should follow JIS and other standards that font vendors use. Paul -----Original Message----- From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:25 AM To: Paul Nelson (ATC) Cc: www-style@w3.org; WWW International Subject: Re: [CSS3 Text] punctuation-trim 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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