Re: [css-writing-modes-3] range limit for 'text-combine-upright: all' versus 'text-combine-upright: digits <integer>'

Le 2015-06-22 14:03, Florian Rivoal a écrit :
>> On 22 Jun 2015, at 11:35, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp> wrote:
>> 
>>> There seems to be no implicit (and no explicit) range limit to the 
>>> number of consecutive characters when using 'text-combine-upright: 
>>> all' but there is a range 2-4 limit with 'text-combine-upright: 
>>> digits n':
>>> Q1: is that assumption correct? (To me, this seems odd and 
>>> incoherent.)
>> 
>> Correct.
>> 
>>> Q2: If there is no range limitation with 'text-combine-upright: all', 
>>> then
>>> why should there be one with 'text-combine-upright: digits n' where 
>>> 'n'
>>> would be a [2-9] digit?
>> 
>> “all” is not likely to be affected much by the number of characters; 
>> it just measure the whole string, and shrink if needed.
>> 
>> “digits” checks the number of characters, and thus could fail on 
>> specific number. A request was made to avoid implementations and 
>> testing that were never used in the real world.
> 
> I agree with Gérard.
> 
> I understand wanting to limit to 4 digits since there is no use case
> for more if that makes implementations simpler.
> 
> I do not understand why the logic is not applied to the all value,
> allowing it to only match up to 4 digits.

Yes. Exactly what I thought. Thank you Florian.

Gérard

Received on Monday, 22 June 2015 18:13:53 UTC