Re: Another cut on the Character-Transform Property

On Apr 4, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Brad Kemper wrote:

>
> On Apr 4, 2010, at 11:10 AM, John Hudson wrote:
>
>>>> text-elevation
>>
>>> I counter with:
>>> text-relation
>>
>> 	relative-script
>> or
>> 	reduced-script
>
> To me, 'glyph-position' is meaningful (so is 'text-elevation', even  
> if it was meant as a joke). The others, not so much.
>
> When I see 'script-style', I think first of JavaSCRIPT and cascading  
> STYLE sheets. Sure you can use JavaScript to style your elements,  
> but <rhetorical>what does that have to do with these reduced-sized  
> and vertically-moved versions of the characters?</rhetorical>

The title of the section is "Positional character forms" -- so perhaps  
'character-position'.  'glyph-position' is probably better.

Can we add font-weight to the list of affected properties?  A  
superscript / subscript is often made slightly heavier to make it  
pleasing to the eye.

Perry

Received on Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:04:08 UTC