- From: Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:45:55 -0400
- To: "Chris Lilley" <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: "Public W3C style mailing list" <www-style@w3.org>
Le Mer 12 octobre 2011 11:39, Chris Lilley a écrit : > 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, Section 15.2 http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#algorithm also needs a bit of tuning: " where all lowercase letters are replaced by upper case letters. " which, I think, should be replaced with " where all lowercase characters are replaced by uppercase characters. " There are some characters which are not considered letters but which can be uppercased. -------------- "scaling" versus "scaling down" " by electronically scaling uppercase letters from a normal font. " Another thing that I thought with regards to the verb scale (and scaled and scaling; and that applies to section 15.5 as well): why it isn't said "scaling down" ? In my opinion, it should read " by electronically scaling down uppercase glyphs from a normal font. " In section 15.5, I think it should be saying " (...) by scaled down uppercase glyphs (...) " regards, Gérard -- CSS 2.1 Test suite RC6, March 23rd 2011 http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/toc.html Contributions to CSS 2.1 test suite http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/ Web authors' contributions to CSS 2.1 test suite http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/web-authors-contributions-css21-testsuite.html
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