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Re: [css3-text] 'letter-spacing' defn nit

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:53:09 -0700
Message-ID: <520BC405.2080003@inkedblade.net>
To: www-style@w3.org 
On 08/14/2013 07:37 AM, John Daggett wrote:
>
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#letter-spacing
>
> # ‘normal’
> #   Specifies normal spacing between characters as defined by the
> #   current font. Typically this is zero.
>
> No, default spacing between characters is determined by glyph
> advances.  It's *not* zero.  I think what you're trying to say is
> simply "No additional spacing is applied."

Yeah, that bit was copied from CSS2.1, and I never really understood
what it meant.

Fixed.

~fantasai
Received on Wednesday, 14 August 2013 17:53:37 UTC

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