- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:55:12 +0100
- To: www-style@gtalbot.org, Public W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
- CC: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
On 13/10/2011 16:45, "Gérard Talbot" wrote: > 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). [...] > 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. Gérard, I've tracked this in https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15383 Cheers, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net
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