Re: [css3-fonts] font-variant-numeric

Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:

> Would the generic term "glyph substitution" work (instead of font rendering) to describe the effect of font features and the font-variant properties? 

Not when glyph positioning is what is being described.

I suggest something along these lines, with higher level general terms 
and lower level specific terms:

Glyph processing:
incpororating glyph substitution and glyph positioning

Text shaping:
incorporating script shaping, language shaping and typographic* shaping


* A loose definition of typography would consider all this stuff 
'typographic' by virtue of using fonts, but I prefer an intentional and 
functional definition such as that provided by the type historian 
Margaret M. Smith: typography is the articulation of texts, and hence 
follows after the normative shaping of a writing system.


JH

Received on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 17:45:25 UTC