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Re: [css3-font] unquoted font family names with whitespace

From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:49:32 -0700
To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
Cc: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20120316224932.GB410@pickering.dbaron.org> 
On Friday 2012-03-16 22:19 +0000, Sylvain Galineau wrote:
> My understanding is that this was good general advice since unquoted font 
> family names may be somewhat more ambiguous in the font shorthand.

Families aren't any more ambiguous in the 'font' shorthand than they
are in 'font-family' because, in the 'font' shorthand, the family
must come immediately after the <font-size> [ / <line-height> ]?
part.

-David

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