Re: [css3-text] Splitting CSS Text into Level 3 and Level 4

Also sprach Brad Kemper:

 > Yes. How about this for hiding spaces by transforming them to an empty string:
 > 
 > @text-transform no-spaces { convert: "\ " to ""; }

Looks right.

 > I think it would be good to have examples like that in the spec
 > when we have one. It would show that the only way to convert
 > characters to an empty string is if the entire "to" part is "". Or
 > it could be " " or " ", etc. I suppose, since the spaces are just
 > seperators. .

Yes. There are many ways to make text disappear, I'm afraid :)

 > > Should we allow "negative" ranges? As in:
 > > 
 > >  convert: z-a to "•";
 > > 
 > > Probably not. The presence of a "negative range" should probably lead
 > > to discarding the whole statement:
 > > 
 > >  convert: "0-9 z-a A-Z" to "•"; }  /* no effect */
 > >  convert: lowercase, "æ" to "Æ", "0-9 z-a A-Z" to "•"; }  /* no effect */
 > 
 > I don't feel strongly about that. To me, z-a and a-z seem to
 > unambiguously mean the same thing. But I wouldn't fight for the
 > right to write z-a.

They probably don't do any harm. And allowing them will give us fewer
rules for error handling. So, let's.

-h&kon
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