[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #61 from Magne Andersson bugzi...@zirro.se 2009-08-18 12:54:28 PDT --- Will this make it in for 1.9.2, or is it for a later version? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #60 from David Baron [:dbaron] dba...@dbaron.org 2009-01-29 15:46:23 PST --- OK, I landed those pieces: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cbcf14ce64cc http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e2182ed1e129 so I think what's left here should be the platform-specific parts. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
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Boris Zbarsky (:bz) (todo: 175+ items) bzbar...@mit.edu changed:
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Attachment #358121|superreview?(bzbar...@mit.e |superreview+
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--- Comment #58 from Boris Zbarsky (:bz) (todo: 175+ items) bzbar...@mit.edu
2009-01-28 10:58:00 PST ---
(From update of attachment 358121)
+++ b/gfx/src/nsFont.cpp
nsFont::nsFont(const char* aName, PRUint8 aStyle, PRUint8 aVariant,
Might be worth it to move these constructors to initializer syntax, maybe.
That can be a separate patch, of course.
+++ b/gfx/thebes/public/gfxFontConstants.h
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_ULTRA_CONDENSED -4
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_EXTRA_CONDENSED -3
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_CONDENSED -2
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_SEMI_CONDENSED -1
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_NORMAL 0
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_SEMI_EXPANDED 1
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_EXPANDED2
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_EXTRA_EXPANDED 3
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_ULTRA_EXPANDED 4
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_WIDER 10
+#define NS_FONT_STRETCH_NARROWER-10
Document or PR_STATIC_ASSERT that WIDER needs to be ULTRA_EXPANDED -
ULTRA_CONDENSED (or rather the min and max normal values of font-stretch) and
that NARROWER needs to be -WIDER? I assume it does so that we can tell apart
ULTRA_CONDENSED+WIDER and other values.
+++ b/layout/style/nsComputedDOMStyle.cpp
+nsComputedDOMStyle::GetFontStretch(nsIDOMCSSValue** aValue)
+ PR_STATIC_ASSERT(NS_FONT_STRETCH_NARROWER == -10);
+ PR_STATIC_ASSERT(NS_FONT_STRETCH_WIDER == 10);
How about:
PR_STATIC_ASSERT(NS_FONT_STRETCH_NARROWER % 2 == 0);
PR_STATIC_ASSERT(NS_FONT_STRETCH_WIDER % 2 == 0);
+ } else if (stretch = -5) {
...
+ } else if (stretch = 5) {
And make that |stretch = NS_FONT_STRETCH_NARROWER / 2| and |stretch =
NS_FONT_STRETCH_WIDER / 2| ? That looks like it should be eqivalent given the
range asserts in the header, right?
Alternately, if we had a FONT_STRETCH_MIN/MAX declared in the header we could
compare to them here (with strict and , presumably).
sr=bzbarsky with the nits.
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[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #59 from David Baron [:dbaron] dba...@dbaron.org 2009-01-28 11:17:17 PST --- (In reply to comment #58) Document or PR_STATIC_ASSERT that WIDER needs to be ULTRA_EXPANDED - ULTRA_CONDENSED (or rather the min and max normal values of font-stretch) and that NARROWER needs to be -WIDER? I assume it does so that we can tell apart ULTRA_CONDENSED+WIDER and other values. I'll go with the document primarily because using PR_STATIC_ASSERT in header files is a real mess, because it depends on prlog.h, but we in turn depend on setting up FORCE_PR_LOG macros in special ways before the first include of prlog.h, so I'd really prefer to avoid including prlog.h from header files (and I don't want to get into that mess as part of this patch). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
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[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 Bug 3512 depends on bug 437356, which changed state. Bug 437356 Summary: set up shared font entry object https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437356 What|Old Value |New Value Status|ASSIGNED|RESOLVED Resolution||FIXED -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
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[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Comment #53 from Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-06-04 23:24:08 PDT --- If that can help disambiguate the W3C spec do not forget stretch properties are also discussed in other documents such as http://blogs.msdn.com/text/attachment/2249036.ashx -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 David Baron [:dbaron] [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Comment #43 from David Baron [:dbaron] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-06-04 10:04:41 PDT --- So, for what it's worth, the patch here has the same issue with narrower and wider that we have with bolder and lighter for font-weight; we really need to store an ordered list of narrower/wider values if we want to get this correct relative to the fonts available, on a per-character basis. So if we fix one, we might want to fix the other at the same time. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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--- Comment #46 from John Daggett (:jtd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-06-04
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(In reply to comment #43)
So, for what it's worth, the patch here has the same issue with narrower and
wider that we have with bolder and lighter for font-weight; we really need to
store an ordered list of narrower/wider values if we want to get this correct
relative to the fonts available, on a per-character basis. So if we fix one,
we might want to fix the other at the same time.
That's actually what we do for bolder/lighter, at least on Mac/Windows. The
real tricky part of the problem is dealing with synthetic bold because you need
to know whether a face was available for weight + n steps of bolder when
deciding whether to enable synthetic bold or not, as in the inner-most span
below:
Font family: Bongo (two weights 200, 400)
.base { font-family: Bongo; font-weight: 200; }
.b { font-weight: bolder; }
p class=baseShould be light face
span class=bwith regular face
span class=band synthetic bolded regular face/span
/span
/p
So for font-stretch we may have to deal with the same issues if we're going to
do synthesized condensed/expanded (Stuart is in favor, I'm on the fence).
As for the numbers, we probably need to pass around relative widths also (e.g.
501 for normal + 1 step wider) as we do for font-weight.
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #48 from Zack Weinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-06-04 17:30:58 PDT --- The problem with a single-number coding scheme like 501 = normal + 1 step (wider/bolder) is that wider/narrower, like bolder/lighter, are required to make a change if they can. So, consider span style=font-stretch: normala span style=font-stretch: widerb span style=font-stretch: narrowerc /span/span/span Suppose that the font family for this entire thing has two widths: normal and condensed. (Pretty common.) Then the spec says a and b should be rendered at normal width, and c at condensed width. But with a single-number scheme, the style for c is indistinguishable from the style for a. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #49 from John Daggett (:jtd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-06-04 18:57:30 PDT --- (In reply to comment #48) Hmmm, what spec defines this? Are you using the wording for font-weight from the 2.1 spec to infer how font-stretch works? I would argue that for your example a and c should render the same no matter what font faces were available. I could definitely see how one might interpret the 2.1 font-weight description to infer the behavior in your example. Damn spec writers. ;) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 John Daggett (:jtd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||[EMAIL PROTECTED] AssignedTo|[EMAIL PROTECTED] |[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 John Daggett (:jtd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||[EMAIL PROTECTED], ||[EMAIL PROTECTED], ||[EMAIL PROTECTED] Priority|P4 |P2 --- Comment #39 from John Daggett (:jtd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-03 18:05:55 PDT --- Given the wider prevalence of condensed/expanded faces on platforms like Mac OS X and the increasing number of open source fonts like the Deja Vu family which contain condensed/expanded faces, I'm going to bump up the priority of this one. Without this attribute these faces are effectively unusable, since no combination of font-xxx attributes will resolve to a condensed face if a normal face is around. On Windows, where font families are currently unified using the four faces per family rule, the font-family attribute can be used but this doesn't work when name unification is done to include a fuller set of faces within a single font family, as is done under Mac OS X. Stuart says he has a work-in-progress patch. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #40 from David Baron [:dbaron] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-03 22:26:16 PDT --- Created an attachment (id=313538) -- (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=313538) patch for style system end Here's a patch that gets this through the style system (it was already half-implemented) so you guys have something to test with. This passes style system mochitests, but the FIXME comments should really be fixed before landing. (I used the existing constant structure in layout/base/nsStyleConsts.h, which may not be ideal, but it should work.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 David Baron [:dbaron] [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Attachment #313538|0 |1 is obsolete|| --- Comment #41 from David Baron [:dbaron] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-03 22:29:23 PDT --- Created an attachment (id=313539) -- (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=313539) patch for style system end Er, missed one thing that's important for handling dynamic changes. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
[Bug 3512] Implement font-stretch property
Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #36 from Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-07 05:25:42 PST --- I'm going to try to reword and summarise the problem there. 1. When software was young fonts were sparse and their format limitative. One typically had different font files and names per encoding and variant of the same font, and all those files exposed different font family names. Applications manipulating formatted text just had to expose a raw font family list to users, and make minimal effort to regroup the most frequent variants/faces (regular, bold, bold italic, italic) together. Font users browsed the raw font name list and selected the right font file directly. Everyone knew the Microsoft font list (for example, use Aral Black for an heavy font, use Arial Narrow for a condensed one). 2. Strong demand from artists led to creation of more complex fonts and font formats. Modern fonts are no longer limited encoding-wise, faces are no longer limited to regular, bold, bold italic, italic, and more critically they're no longer exposed under different font names. All the faces declare the same font name, and software is expected to provide users ways to select the face they want. 3. Those complex fonts were at first limited to expensive font collections, but are now being commodized 4. After the success of its core fonts for the web initiative Microsoft decided to use its new fonts as a commercial argument. So they're no longer freely distributed, and alternatives to Windows, IE and Office need to propose their own font offerings. Since font names are protected, that means exposing users to new font lists, where the workarounds they learnt in 1. no longer apply. It is therefore becoming critical to revamp the font selection mechanisms of FLOSS apps so : 1. they can expose to users all the faces of the complex fonts which are now getting widely distributed 2. they can help them use non-Microsoft font libraries, so they don't run back to Microsoft products just because they can't manage anything but the commercial fonts it bundles with its offerings Fortunately the technical analysis has already been done as part of W3C OpenType and probably other specifications. Selecting the right face inside a font family depends on three parameters: 1. font slant (font-style, FontStyle): normal, italic, oblique... 2. font weight (font-weight, FontWeight): normal, bold, light... 3. font stretch (font-stretch, FontStretch): normal, condensed, expanded... This classification is adopted by every major actor: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-styling (Web) http://blogs.msdn.com/text/attachment/2249036.ashx (Windows) http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html (Unix/Linux) Firefox is not implementing the third CSS axis right now. That means it can not browse the full font universe, and effectively pushes its users to use fonts distributed on the Windows platform at a time font family games were the only way to expose stretch. This kind of indirect dependency on an editor which has no love lost for Firefox is not good for Firefox users, not good for the Free web the Mozilla foundation wants to promote, and therefore not good for Firefox itself. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #37 from Bob T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-07 12:01:51 PST --- Nicolas and I have disagreed about some simple short-term fixes for this on the Linux platform (which doesn't involve FF). But he's claimed that a short-term fix will contribute to deferring implementation of a long-term general solution of this problem on Firefox. So let me say that I do support implementation of font-stretch ASAP (though I wish a less misleading term such as font-width had been used). Bob T. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #38 from David Baron [:dbaron] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-07 14:16:16 PST --- Discussion about whether we should implement a temporary hack to allow these fonts to be specified does not belong in a bug about implementing the permanent solution. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC|[EMAIL PROTECTED] | --- Comment #34 from Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-06 09:06:37 PST --- See also http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12530#c11 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #35 from Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-06 10:32:04 PST --- (In reply to comment #33) (In reply to comment #32) If web authors could specify it in a font-family list and Firefox would respect that request, Even if it did appear that would not make it selectable in CSS by web authors. Because the font family is not Nimbus Sans L Condensed but Nimbus Sans L, with the Condensed variant, so the font family selector won't work. Nimbus Sans L Condensed is a valid family name, and so can be specified and served by Gecko. It's just not present on most Linux systems like the condensed variant of Nimbus Sans L is. See e.g. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=367188 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added CC||[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Comment #33 from Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-05 05:31:00 PST --- (In reply to comment #32) So maybe font-stretch is a red herring. It's not. font-stretch is the only standardised way to select a condensed font reliably (cross-platform and future-proof). Surely the failure of Firefox on Linux to recognize Nimbus Sans L Condensed is a *bug*. If it does not appear in Firefox dialogs that would be a bug all right (I thought this had been fixed, but Firefox definitely assumes in places you have font family, then regular/bold/italic/bold italic, when the font reality is more complex than that. And fonts that take advantage of this complexity are not limited to expensive niche designer font libraries anymore). If web authors could specify it in a font-family list and Firefox would respect that request, Even if it did appear that would not make it selectable in CSS by web authors. Because the font family is not Nimbus Sans L Condensed but Nimbus Sans L, with the Condensed variant, so the font family selector won't work. Many condensed fonts are like that and Arial Narrow (where Narrow is actually part of the family name) is far from representative. It's sad that this font (which has never been distributed on free/open platforms, and not even been part of the core fonts for the web free-beer-download operation, is used as argument to delay implementing font-stretch. IIRC the Behdad of Pango fame had found some documents that described the font selection algorithm used by Microsoft for OpenType fonts, and intended to closely follow it pango/fontconfig side. This logic should probably apply to CSS font selectors if there is any ambiguïty in the w3c specs. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
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Do not reply to this email. You can add comments to this bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 --- Comment #30 from Bob T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-04 17:54:18 PST --- this needs to apply per family Why? The web designer simply wants to specify, say, a condensed sans serif font. It doesn't have to match a non-condensed font used elsewhere. Think of condensed as analogous to monospaced. you can just use the 'xyz condensed' family most of the time On Linux there is only one condensed font that one can expect is always available: Nimbus Sans L Condensed (a clone of Helvetica Condensed). Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't even allow the user to choose this font, much less use it automatically if font-stretch: condensed is specified, nor even if font-family: Nimbus Sans L Condensed is specified. Now do you see why something has to be done about this? Web pages that use a condensed sans font can't possibly be rendered properly in Linux, no matter what the web designer specifies. Please, at least fix this in the Linux version of Firefox. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug. ___ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
