Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-23 Thread Peter B. West
On 23/09/2009, at 8:18 PM, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Tony, Tony Graham wrote: On Mon, Sep 21 2009 23:30:17 +0100, jonathan.levin...@intersystems.com wrote: ... If inherit is allowed to be a value then the grammar truly becomes ambiguous since each of these can have the value inherit and

Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-23 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Tony, Tony Graham wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21 2009 23:30:17 +0100, jonathan.levin...@intersystems.com wrote: > ... >> If inherit is allowed to be a value then the grammar truly becomes ambiguous >> since each of these can have the value inherit and we don?t know which ones >> are >> omitted and mu

Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-22 Thread Tony Graham
On Mon, Sep 21 2009 23:30:17 +0100, jonathan.levin...@intersystems.com wrote: ... > If inherit is allowed to be a value then the grammar truly becomes ambiguous > since each of these can have the value inherit and we don?t know which ones > are > omitted and must take the value normal. 'inherit'

Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-22 Thread Vincent Hennebert
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

Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-22 Thread Peter B. West
On 23/09/2009, at 12:13 AM, 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.

RE: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-22 Thread Jonathan Levinson
Message- From: Vincent Hennebert [mailto:vhenneb...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:20 AM To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand? Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Levinson wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > > > As I read the gramm

Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-22 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Levinson wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > > > As I read the grammar for the font shorthand it is ambiguous, though not > fatally so as long as one excludes the value of "inherit" from > individual properties in the font short hand. > > > > For instance the first optional arg

Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Kiel
Hi, > I think it is probably the case that in the context of the font short > hand – the font properties cannot take the value of inherit, since > this renders the grammar irreducibly ambiguous. While such an > exclusion is not mentioned in the spec, it makes sense that inherit > must be exclude

Re: ambiguity of grammar for font shorthand?

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Kiel
Hi, > Also, in your message you said we could ignore a value for font of > caption, icon, etc., as the standard tells us to do, but the standard > discusses these values and their relation to system fonts. Was this > an oversight on your part or am I mis-reading the spec? [1] > > [1] http://www.w