- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:01:09 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
L. David Baron wrote: > In CSS 2.1 we added the text: > # The computed value of "font-weight" is either: > # > # * one of the legal number values, or > # * one of the legal number values combined with one or more of > # the relative values (bolder or lighter). This type of > # computed values is necessary to use when the font in > # question does not have all weight variations that are > # needed. > # > # CSS 2.1 does not specify how the computed value of font-weight > # is represented internally or externally. > http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-CSS21-20070719/fonts.html#font-boldness > > This text explains how the computed value of 'font-weight' works to > yield the next-bolder or next-lighter face within the font family, > even when the font family actually used to render a character can > depend on what the character is (and whether the font has it). > > > This disagrees with some existing text that is held over from CSS1. > We should remove the following parts of the bullets in the previous > unordered list: > > (from the 'bolder' bullet) > # If there is no such weight, it simply results in the next darker > # numerical value (and the font remains unchanged), unless the > # inherited value was '900' in which case the resulting weight is > # also '900'. > > (from the 'lighter' bullet) > # , unless there is no such font, in which case it selects the > # next lighter numerical value (and keeps the font unchanged) > > These are incorrect (and don't make any sense anyway, since it's not > possible to do the computation that it describes, since there are > multiple font families involved). Recorded as CSS2.1 Issue 48: http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-48 ~fantasai
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