- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:55:55 +0100
- To: thomas <thomas.bsd@gmail.com>
- Cc: WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach thomas:
> >> fied
> >
> > This would be a really bad thing to do. Suppose the reader doesn't have this
> > particular font, but does have a different font that uses U+E03C for
> > something quite different -- such as an arbitrary dingbat or a non-Latin
> > character, which would appear as "junk", or even an "ll" or "lm" or "bb"
> > ligature, which would completely change the meaning of the text.
>
> This is perfectly true for a web page. But say I want to print an html
> page. I could do some replacements to improve the typographic quality.
> I know I own the font anyway. In a private environment, doing
> s/tt/\uE03C/ is not a problem.
I agree that private, printed environments need a touchup feature.
This is the motivation for the 'text-replace' property [1] where you
can write:
body { font: ... ; text-replace: "tt" "\E03C" }
[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-gcpm/#text-replace
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
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