- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:10:47 -0700
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Richard Fink wrote: >> text-elevation > I counter with: > text-relation I don't find either of these terms descriptive or even suggestive of superscript and subscript (leaving aside ordinals as simply a special case of superscript). In the first place, we're not talking about doing something to the text but about characters within the text (an example of actual text elevation and relative positioning would be Ruby notation). In the second place, elevation describes half of what happens in superscript, and none of what happens in subscript. Thinking more about 'script-style' -- which has precedence at least among typesetters of mathematics (in MS math layout, there is even an OTL feature called Script Style <ssty>, which accesses -script glyph variants that may be scaled and positioned according to font-level constants) --, and thinking about the etymologies of superscript and subscript -- literally 'above writing' and 'below writing' --, I'm leaning toward something like relative-script or reduced-script John Hudson
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