Re: Advanced Font Features

Also sprach Philip Taylor (Webmaster):

 > > 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.
 > 
 > Isn't "-variant" redundant

"variant" needs to be there if we want to use 'font-variant' as a
shorthand property for these new, individual, properties. I think
think this is a good idea; it makes it possible to to set all values
to their initial values with a simple statement like this:

   font: 12pt "Arno Pro";

 > "-spacing" be better than "-space" ?

Perhaps. I tend to like shorter names. 

Cheers,

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com                  http://people.opera.com/howcome

Received on Monday, 21 January 2008 12:37:03 UTC