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[css-text] Clarify that letter-spacing can result in compression
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css-text/Overview.bs

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an “fi” ligature should not be used
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as it will prevent even spacing of the text.
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<h4 id="cursive-tracking">
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Cursive Scripts</h4>
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<p>If it is able, the UA <em>may</em> apply letter spacing to <a>cursive scripts</a>
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by translating the total extra space to be distributed to a run of such letters
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into some form of cursive elongation for that run.
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into some form of cursive elongation (or compression, for negative tracking values) for that run.
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Otherwise, if the UA cannot expand text from a <a>cursive script</a>
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without breaking its cursive connections,
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it <em>must not</em> apply spacing

css-text/issues-lc-2013.txt

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Comment: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014May/0409.html
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Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Aug/0217.html
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Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Aug/0295.html
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Open: Needs edits
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Closed: Accepted
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Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0259.html
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Issue 71.
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Comment: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014May/0409.html
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Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Aug/0217.html
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Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Aug/0295.html
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Open: Needs edits
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Closed: Accepted
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Resolved: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Oct/0259.html
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Issue 80.

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