Re: [css3-text] vertical-align and shaping

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:10 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote:
> For example, I don't see any reason why the two pieces of markup
> below should be shaped differently:
>
>   <span>A</span><span>W</span>
>   <sup>A</sup><sup>W</sup>
>
> I don't see any reason why the kerning applied between the letters
> in adjacent spans should not be used between adjacent superscript
> elements.

Because they're effectively different words, semantically.  And this
is far more than kerning - you don't want those two to ligaturize, or
affect character shapes in Arabic, etc.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 9 September 2014 07:40:31 UTC