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Re: [css21] 'font-family' should disallow 'inherit' in font names more strictly

From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:27:40 +0200
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To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
John Daggett:

>>> The keywords 'initial' and 'default' are reserved for
>>> future use and must also be quoted when used _in_
>>> font names.
> 
> This is equally imprecise, it implies that only the keywords are
> quoted when what you mean to say is that font family names
> *containing* these keywords must be quoted.

I’m not a native speaker and therefore wonder whether “containing” would include or exclude cases like “inhertitance’, ‘dropinitial’, ‘MyDefaultFont’. (It shouldn’t, of course.)
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