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Re: [css21] Make font weight mapping rules normative

From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:17:24 -0700
Message-ID: <p2pf49ae6ac1003310917r83e0478dxfcaf7c78dea44a37@mail.gmail.com>
To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org> 
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:54 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:

>  * If the font family already uses a numerical scale with nine values
>    (like e.g., OpenType does),
>

That statement is incorrect. OpenType uses a numerical scale with hundreds
of possible values. Only the values at the hundreds are specifically
defined.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/os2.htm#wtc

Cheers,

T

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