- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 21:05:09 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-style@gtalbot.org
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Gérard Talbot wrote:
> > This 'font-variant-position' property [1] is not a replacement for
> > the existing subscript/superscript mechanism in HTML which uses a
> > combination of 'font-size'
>
> Most browsers use in their user agent style sheet:
>
> sub, sup {font-size: smaller;}
> /* though Appendix D gives small, sub, sup {font-size: .83em} */
It's a combination of font-size: smaller *and* a baseline shift via 'vertical-align':
>From http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/style/html.css#520 -
sub {
vertical-align: sub;
font-size: smaller;
line-height: normal;
}
sup {
vertical-align: super;
font-size: smaller;
line-height: normal;
}
But this feature is *not* trying to be a replacement for that, the
wording in the spec explains why.
> In several places in that superscript-underline.html test page, the
> text in that webpage uses/says "superscript" when in fact it should
> be using/saying "subscript".
The example uses both subscript and superscripts. I updated the
testcase.
> John, I really have to ask you this: which software do you use for
> gathering typography metrics of TTF fonts under Linux (debian
> distributions like Kubuntu)?
I dumped it out with FontTools/ttx and used the spreadsheet below to
calculate the metrics in percentages:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArCKGq7OfNmMdFZiSFQzQ1VqV0ttQ2hYMUtHYnB0N1E&usp=sharing
Cheers,
John
Received on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 04:05:40 UTC