- From: Peter Moulder <pjrm@mail.internode.on.net>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:30:00 +1100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:32:28PM +0000, Phillips, Addison wrote: > that letter-spacing should "break" the joining "bar" (shirorekha) in Is it proposed that the specification add that this bar "should" be broken? My information is that this practice is common (or even universal outside of hand-formed word shapes), but that it is nevertheless undesirable in some circumstances (such as justification in a newspaper, where the spacing isn't semantically significant, and isn't intended to be noticeable). I am also told that handwriting would not break this bar [other than in the sense that आरम्भ might be described as having a broken bar]. (As I understand it, these gaps have become acceptable because they were largely unavoidable when using moveable type and typewriters.) I would thus be careful about specifying that this bar should always have visible gaps when letter-spacing is non-zero. (There's also the case of negative letter-spacing to consider, if we were to look at adding such a clause to the spec.) I can try to find some more information on this if that's useful. pjrm.
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