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

List: www-style
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 20:39:03 +0200
Author: "Jan Tosovsky" <j.tosovsky@email.cz>

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

List: www-style
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 10:54:21 -0700
Author: John Hudson <john@tiro.ca>

See previous comment on existing OpenType GPOS features for optical margin alignment. The model you suggest is similar to an idea that Adobe put forward in the early days of OpenType, which is to hav

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

List: www-style
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 10:46:56 -0700
Author: John Hudson <john@tiro.ca>

Point of information: OpenType has registered GPOS features for optical margin alignment, so in theory a font can contain explicit information for beginning- and end-of-line adjustments to be made. I

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

List: www-style
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 23:03:43 -0400
Author: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@w3.org>

[...] I don't really see how StartOfLine or EndOfLine could be in a different font than the character being "kerned". I've encountered this SOL/EOL concept before under the name of Margin Kerning. Ex

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

List: www-style
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 00:41:23 +0000
Author: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>

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

List: www-style
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 20:34:47 -0400
Author: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>

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

List: www-style
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 00:22:47 +0000
Author: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>

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

List: www-style
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 20:12:44 -0400
Author: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>

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