- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
- To: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
After the requirement to disable full-width variants was removed, in it's place this note was added: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-writing-modes/#text-combine-fullwidth # Full-width glyph variations can also be chosen via the font-variant # property or @font-face descriptor [CSS3-FONTS]. However since such # variations do not affect the glyph shape in contemporary fonts, # there is no explicit interaction with this feature currently. A # future revision of this specification may require ignoring such # declarations within the combined text if common usage makes such # behavior desirable. I strongly object to this wording. Who is this note addressed to and what purpose does it serve? You're conjecturing about possible future WG decisions and as such I don't think that has any place in a spec. It's just noise to those working on implementations and distracting to authors trying to understand the 'text-combine-horizontal' property. Either omit this note or replace it with one directed at authors: Properties that affect glyph selection, such as the 'font-variant' and 'font-feature-settings' properties defined in [CSS3-FONTS], can potentially affect the selection of variants for digits or alphabetic characters included in <em>tatechuyoko</em> text runs. Authors are advised to use these properties with care when 'text-combine-horizontal' is also used. That's more informative and serves a purpose I think. Regards, John Daggett
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