[css-text] vertical-align and shaping (again)

>From the minutes of the CSS F2F in Sophia [1]

> - RESOLVED: Text shaping MUST be broken across inline element
>             boundaries when:
>    A. one of margin/border/padding are non-zero
>    B. vertical-align is not 'baseline'
>    C. it is a bidi isolation boundary
>     Text shaping MUST NOT be broken across inline element
>     boundaries when there is no change in formatting.
>     Text shaping SHOULD NOT be broken across inline
>     element boundaries otherwise, if it is reasonable and
>     possible for that case given the limitations of the
>     font technology.
>     http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Aug/0295.html

I should note again that I think (B) is misguided and it should not
be viewed as consensus opinion. I doubt any implementor will actually
implement this so we should remove it.

There was a small thread pointing this out [2], including Simon's comment [3]:

  There are all sorts of cases where you don't want Arabic
  letters to join, e.g. acronyms like IBM, and I don't think
  it's a good idea to multiply cases where it gets triggered
  by other properties.

Regards,

John Daggett

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0259.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Sep/0120.html
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Sep/0152.html

Received on Tuesday, 14 October 2014 02:13:11 UTC