The origins of the lines as a typographic trick probably bear some
shared history with the use of underlining book titles as an
authorial hint to the typesetter that the text should be italicized,
though two generations of English teachers have since taught students
to underline book titles, even though they were supposed to be
italicized. In my case, though, I really did need the
overline&underline option:
http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/2011/simplePuns.svg [1]
This doesn't work in FF or Opera, but it does in ASV.
cheers
David
On Sun 10/16/11 12:35 PM , "Kenneth N" nelli...@gmail.com sent:
Works in Mac Safari 5.1 as well, but I don't believe that that is
the proper way to present Roman Numerals. Just display them as upper
case in a serif font.
I remember back in grade school our teacher would write out the
upper-case letters of the Roman numerals and then draw the two lines
across them all, but I think this was just a short cut to drawing
serifs on all the letters. Frankly, I don't think even the serifs are
necessary if context makes it clear that Roman numerals are being
presented.
â"Ken
--- In , Cameron McCormack wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> On 15/10/11 1:34 PM, David Dailey wrote:
> > I assumed I would just apply text-decoration="overline,
underline" or two
> > instances of text-decoration, one with overline and one with
underline to
> > make Roman numerals, but this appears not to be the case.
> >
> > I need both the overline and the underline for what I'm doing.
There's a
> > Unicode range for these, but most fonts seem not to include the
distinctive
> > pair of lines.
>
> It should be just text-decoration="overline underline", according
to CSS
> 3 Text: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#decoration [3]
>
> That seems to work in Chrome, at least. (Didn't test anything
else.)
>
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