- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:49:44 +0000
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- CC: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
[L. David Baron:] > > 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. > As line-height is optional and font-size can be a keyword I'd think ambiguity is possible e.g. if you want to use Monotype's Medium Roman: font: bold medium roman; and... font: bold 'medium roman'; ...are not the same thing. The same issue could happen with fonts such as 'Large Old English Riband", "Large OT", "Large" and a number of other fonts for sale on MyFonts.com. I suspect there might even be families that start with 'small'. Or am I missing something?
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