- From: Jonathan Kew <jonathan@jfkew.plus.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:07:36 +0000
- To: "Jens O. Meiert" <jens@meiert.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On 18 Mar 2011, at 21:05, Jens O. Meiert wrote: > In the CSS Fonts Module [1] (yet this may affect more CSS drafts) I > suggest to “not repeat yourself” [2] in property values. > > For example, “font-variant-ligatures” currently envisions values like > “common-ligatures” or “additional-ligatures”. Naming them “common” or > “additional” would be shorter and hence easier to remember while not > being any harder to understand (“ligatures” is already part of the > property name). > > The same applies at least to “font-variant-numeric” which might > benefit from the values “lining”, “old[style]”, “proportonial”, and > “tabular” instead of “lining-nums” etc. This doesn't work so well when using the values with the font-variant shorthand: font-variant: additional lining; is not nearly as clear as font-variant: additional-ligatures lining-numerals; JK
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