Re: [css-text] Amending hanging-punctuation for Western typography

On 04/06/2016 08:22 PM, Alan Stearns wrote:
> On 4/6/16, 5:12 PM, "fantasai" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
>
>> On 04/06/2016 07:33 PM, Alan Stearns wrote:
>>>
>>> Elika, Koji - what do you think?
>>
>> Overall I think it sounds very complicated... and I'm not convinced
>> it'll work that great in practice. Wouldn't it make more sense to
>> be able to have a kerning value for the start/end of the line and
>> to have a switch to just turn that on? That way the font designer
>> can do full-on optical alignment, which is the goal in Western
>> hanging punctuation anyway.
>
> No, because it depends on the character - as Jon noted. A hyphen
> should hang completely off the edge, while an em-dash might only
> hang halfway. Optical alignment takes a look at the shape of the
> glyph and makes individual adjustments, it doesn’t apply a single
> kerning value.

I think you didn't understand what I meant... I meant pairs kerning,
which would be able to handle this perfectly. You just have one of
the possible "glyphs" in the pair be SOL or EOL.

~fantasai

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