- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:43:05 -0800
- To: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 02/21/2013 05:30 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote: > [fantasai:] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 6:09 PM >> To: www-style@w3.org >> Subject: Re: [css3-writing-modes] text-combine-horizontal and half-width >> numerals >> >> On 02/20/2013 05:49 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote: >>> When combining two digits into a 1em box, using half-width numerals >> seems preferred. >>> If the current font family does not have glyphs for half-width digits, >>> should the UA fall back to the next family in the list? >> >> No, it should just place them (if they seem to fit: in most proportional >> fonts they do) or scale them. >> > Can you elaborate on why you think this is preferable? Because switching typefaces is a sort of last resort. We don't do this when any other font feature is missing, why would we do it here? ~fantasai
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