Re: [css3-text] fullwidth punctuation kerning
Ambrose LI <[email protected]>
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On 28 September 2010 03:22, John Daggett <[email protected]> wrote: > Section 7.3 of the CSS3 Text spec details a property that effectively > controls kerning on a small subset of CJK punctuation characters: > > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#punctuation-trim > > I don't quite see the necessity of of an author level property to > control this unless it's something that is really controlled at an > author level stylistically. In fact, supporting this in a browser > that uses an OpenType layout engine would effectively require > *undoing* layout based kerning information contained in fonts, > especially since the default is 'none'. > > I think it would be better omit this property and let the text layout > engine handle this in conjuction with well-designed fonts. I think I agree with you in principle, but as far as I know only Japanese fonts are "well designed" (OpenType-wise). Chinese fonts, as far as I know (but I may be wrong) do not generally contain any such information. So whoever proposed the property probably had Chinese fonts in mind. > John Daggett -- cheers, -ambrose