- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:20:05 -0700
- To: robert@ocallahan.org
- CC: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, www-style@w3.org
On 03/24/2010 02:46 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:35 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com > <mailto:jdaggett@mozilla.com>> wrote: > > 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? > > > In our code we use "text shaping" to describe the process of converting > a string of characters into a list of positioned glyphs, how about that? "Shaping" is often applied to selecting initial, medial, and final forms of Arabic glyphs, so that may not be the best choice. > Failing that, how about "glyph conversion"? Seems reasonable. ~fantasai
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