- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:13:07 +0200
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:33 , John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Hi Cam,
>
> Rather than using new CSS features to solve your problem, I think the simplest and best approach here is simply to use a font that's designed for the set of characters you intend to use. Applying "effects" like this is always a second-rate option.
true, but is it possible to predict the coverage of a ‘generic’ font like monospace? isn’t it likely to vary across platforms? Perhaps doing a character-fallback from a font that has a certain ‘promise’ (e.g. monospacing in this case) to one that does not adhere to that promise is not helpful, unless some kind of adjustment step is taken?
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cameron McCormack" <cam@mcc.id.au>
> To: "www-style list" <www-style@w3.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 2:35:13 PM
> Subject: [css-text][css-fonts] preventing font fallback from ruining my monospace text's alignment
>
> I have a document that includes some code snippets in <pre> elements.
> Here is one:
>
> <pre>
> ...
> <ex:arc from="n2" to="n3" label="Λ + c"/>
> ...
> </pre>
>
> It turns out that the font I am using for my code snippets doesn't have
> a glyph for the "Λ" character, and that the fallback font it ends up
> using has an advance that is a bit bigger than that of the surrounding
> characters. This causes all the following characters to look
> misaligned, when looking at the lines above and below it.
>
> Is there a way to prevent that from happening? I feel like I want the
> ability to compress the "Λ" so that its advance is 1ch or perhaps to let
> it render at its slightly-bigger-than-I-want size but then place the
> following character where I expect it.
>
> pre { font-family: My Monospace Font; text-advance: 1ch compress; }
>
>
David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
Received on Wednesday, 22 October 2014 08:13:41 UTC