- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:35:34 -0700 (PDT)
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
John Hudson wrote: > On the subject of terminology in > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-variant-numeric-prop > > I find the use of the term 'font rendering' in this document > unfortunate, and would like to request that it be changed. For font > developers -- who spend a lot of time these days talking about what > happens to text on screen -- rendering refers to glyph painting > (typically some form of rasterisation). Hence, we talk about e.g. > different kinds of rendering engines and models, Apple Quartz rendering > vs. Microsoft ClearType rendering, hinting for different rendering > environments, etc. > > The kind of glyph substitution and positioning behaviours and properties > described in the draft document are what we would call text layout, not > font rendering. Yeah, I struggled over what term to use here, "font rendering" was by no means the ideal term. What I've called "font rendering properties" are properties not used for selecting a face within a family but instead properties applied when picking glyphs to display. "Font feature properties" is probably what I should use instead. In places where rendering is discussed, maybe "text rendering" rather than "font rendering" would be sufficiently distinct not to cause confusion?
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