Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Levinson wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> You make excellent points, however for font-style, font-variant and 
> font-weight the initial value (the default value) is normal, not inherit.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#font-style
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#font-variant
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#font-weight

Sure but the properties are inheritable. The initial value is used for
the root element and propagated down the FO tree. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xsl11-20061205/#speccomact


> This is a minor detail, but important if our discussion is used as the basis 
> for building a recursive descent parser.

Moreover we can easily get things wrong with the XSL-FO Recommendation,
so double-checking is beneficial and welcome.

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Thanks,
Vincent

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