[css2] few more examples, bogus syntax on src still not fixed sorry

svgeesus · svgeesus · commit abb9e1855ade · 1998-02-21T04:47:03.000Z
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diff --git a/css2/fonts.src b/css2/fonts.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: fonts.src,v 2.13 1998-02-21 04:19:50 ijacobs Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: fonts.src,v 2.14 1998-02-21 04:47:03 clilley Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Fonts</TITLE>
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ selection</a>.
       cursive companion face to the normal face, but not so cursive as
       to make it a script face. Oblique is a slanted form of the
       normal face, and is more commonly used as a companion face to
-      sans-serif.
+      sans-serif. This avoids having to label slightly slanted normal
+      faces as oblique, or Greek faces as italic.
 
 <dt><strong><a name="font-variant">Font variant</a></strong>
 
@@ -221,7 +222,19 @@ href="syndata.html#skip">skipped</a></span> and any sequence of
 whitespace characters inside the font name is converted to a single
 space.
 
+<div class="example"><p>The richer selector syntax of CSS2 may be used to create language-sensitive typography. For example, some Chinese and Japanese characters are unified to have the same Unicode codepoint, although the glyphs are not the same in the two languages. 
 
+<pre>
+  *[lang="ja-jp"] { font: 900 14pt/16pt "Heisei Mincho W9", serif }
+  *[lang="zh-tw"] { font: 800 14pt/16.5pt "Li Sung", serif }
+</pre>
+<!-- need to check tw for traditional chinese as used in taiwan -->
+
+<p>The * selects any element and the square brackets select elements
+which have the lang attribute set to Japanes or to Traditional Chinese
+and selects the appriopriate font
+
+</div>
     <DT><span class="index-def"
 title="&lt;generic-family&gt;::definition of"><a name="value-def-generic-family" class="value-def"><strong>&lt;generic-family&gt;</strong></a></span> 
     <DD>
@@ -340,6 +353,12 @@ fonts with old-style numerals, small-caps numerals, condensed or
 expanded letters, etc. CSS2 does not offer 'font-variant' values that select
 those variants. -->
 
+    <!-- bitstream and apple have proposed a font-condense property, this
+    seems a good idea as it keeps normal condensed and expanded faces in
+    the same font family instead of creating pseudo families like
+    "Helvetica Condensed". DSSSL has a nine point scale (using keywords)
+    called font-proportionate-width -->
+
 <P>Insofar as this property causes text to be transformed to
 uppercase, the same considerations as for <span
 class="propinst-text-transform">'text-transform'</span> apply.
@@ -1160,7 +1179,12 @@ values as the <span class="propinst-font-style">'font-style'</span>
 property, except that a comma-separated list is permitted. 
 
 <!-- Is this paragraph necessary? These names are already in the section
-on the font-style property. -IJ -->
+on the font-style property. -IJ 
+
+Yes but the descriptions were not as good as here. I changed the
+descriptions in the font-style property to match the (commented out)
+text below CL -->
+
 <!-- 
 The value
 'normal' indicates that this is the normal face of a font; it is
@@ -1200,11 +1224,10 @@ exceptions:</p>
 
 <ol>
 <li>relative keywords (bolder, lighter) are not permitted.
-<li>a comma separated list of values is permitted.
-<li>an additional keyword, 'all' is permitted.
+<li>a comma separated list of values is permitted, for fonts which contain multiple weights.
+<li>an additional keyword, 'all' is permitted, which means that the font will match for all possible weights; either because it contains multiple weights, or because that face only has a single weight.
 </ol>
 
-<!-- What does "all" mean? -IJ -->
 
 <!-- should values not a multiple of 100 also be allowed? -->
 
