- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:39:38 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Monday 01 June 2009, Michael Day wrote: > However it is a useful abstraction to be able to define unified fonts > in CSS that cover multiple languages as well as scripts, which > requires a language descriptor in @font-face rules. Without this one > can end up with an increased number of styling rules, eg. the product > of the number of fonts (heading, body text, sidenote) with the number > of languages: Useful, but for how many authors? Sure, there will be some texts that contain different renderings of unified characters, viz., texts that talk about the different renderings of unified characters. The author will almost certainly mark up one (or both) of the variants as an example, because it is not in the language of the article; and so it should be quite easy to use a selector. In fact, it is even more likely that the variants aren't text at all, but images. After all, if the difference in rendering is important, it is no longer a question of style. Bert -- Bert Bos ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/people/bos W3C/ERCIM bert@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 92 38 76 92 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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