- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:44:51 -0700
- To: "Levantovsky, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- CC: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, www-style@w3.org
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
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