- From: Lina Kemmel <LKEMMEL@il.ibm.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 16:24:02 +0200
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>, "'WWW International'" <www-international@w3.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> Browsers differ in their behavior. Simon Montagu suspects FF only connects if > they are using the same font (face, style, and weight). IE8 and Safari (at least) show the same behavior. ============== > A reasonable switch might be whether there is positive padding/border/margin > between inlines. It seems unlikely that joining behavior is desired across > a non-zero margin, or that block elements would be inlined together without > either whitespace or margin/border/padding as a separator. Arabic shaping implies not just connecting letters, but also replacing code points and/or glyphs. I think the latter (reshaping) should be done regardless of presence of paddings/borders/margins. For example, one could put a margin to emphasize the first letter. However, padding/border/margin could trigger joining or disjoining in other cases, e.g. for combining character sequences. Lina
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