- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:23:23 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: christoph.paeper@crissov.de, CSS <www-style@w3.org>
Fantasai wrote:
> > font-variant-width: normal | proportional | monospace
> >
> > The main use case for this property is to select between proportional
> > and monospace digits. Today, Georgia has proportional digits and
> > Verdana has monospaced digits. More advanced fonts may have both
> > kinds.
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to use the font-variant-digits property
> for that switch?
Yes, I think it makes sense to have a property which is limited
to digits (and possibly other digit-related characters?).
Christoph Päper posted this table:
> | monospace | proportional
> ---------+-----------+-------------
> oldstyle | onum tnum | onum pnum
> lining | lnum tnum | lnum pnum
So, one solution is for 'font-variant-digits' to accept these values:
font-variant-digits: [ monospace | proportional | normal ] || [ oldstyle | lining | normal ]
where 'normal' means the font's default.
It kind of feels like a shorthand and I'm not sure we want shorthands
within shorthands. So, another option is to have two properties:
font-variant-digits-space: monospace | proportional | normal
font-variant-digits-style: oldstyle | lining | normal
But I don't really like these property names. Hmm.
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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