- From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:58:39 +0100
- To: CSS Style <www-style@w3.org>
Font technologies like Open Type and AAT provide a number of advanced
typographic features, i.e. stuff known from print or handwriting, but
uncommon to electronic typesetting. Not all of them have counterparts
in CSS yet.
Should they? How?
CSS would either provide a generic interface for selecting features
by the author or new properties and values would be inspired of what
is made available by the specifications (whether or not font
designers and text rendering library developers choose to implement).
table {font-style: option("tnum")}
or
code {ligation: none;}
kbd>kbd {glyph-style: isolated;} /* a key */
table {number-style: tabular non-lining;}
.sig {font-family: cursive; serif-style: swash; ligation: full;}
...
PS: As far as I know there is nothing like italics in East-Asian
typography. Oblique can be simulated by automatic slanting. Would it
be acceptable for Japanese to switch display between Katakana and
Hiragana for "font-style: italic"?
Received on Saturday, 19 January 2008 12:58:52 UTC