- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:39:24 +0200
- To: "Gérard Talbot" <www-style@gtalbot.org>
- CC: "Public W3C style mailing list" <www-style@w3.org>
On Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 2:42:46 AM, Gérard wrote: GT> " GT> It is acceptable (but not required) in CSS 2.1 if the small-caps font is a GT> created by taking a normal font and replacing the lower case letters by GT> scaled uppercase characters. GT> " GT> section 15.5 Small-caps: the 'font-variant' property GT> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#small-caps GT> I propose to (two good changes, omitted) GT> 3- change "letters" to "characters": I don't see why the sentence GT> unexpectedly mentions letters and then characters. Both letters and characters are incorrect here. Firstly, one can't scale a character but one can scale a glyph. Secondly, it could be misread as an actual substitution of characters (which would show up in the DOM). GT> So, with those 3 modifications, it would read: " It is acceptable (but not required) in CSS 2.1 if the small-caps font is created by taking a normal font and replacing the lowercase glyphs by scaled uppercase glyphs. " -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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