editorial corrections

Author: John Daggett

css3-fonts/Fonts.html

@@ -111,14 +111,14 @@
 
    <h1>CSS Fonts Module Level 3</h1>
 
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=editors>Editor's Draft 26 March 2010</h2>
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=editors>Editor's Draft 5 April 2010</h2>
 
    <dl id=authors>
     <dt>This version:
 
     <dd><a
      href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/</a>
-     <!-- <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/ED-css3-fonts-20100326">http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/ED-css3-fonts-20100326</a> -->
+     <!-- <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/ED-css3-fonts-20100405">http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/ED-css3-fonts-20100405</a> -->
 
 
     <dt>Latest version:
@@ -295,8 +295,8 @@ <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=contents>Table of contents</h2>
       the font-kerning property</a>
 
      <li><a href="#character-transform-prop"><span class=secno>6.2
-      </span>Positional character forms: the character-transform property</a>
-      
+      </span>Subscript, superscript and ordinal forms: the
+      character-transform property</a>
 
      <li><a href="#font-variant-ligatures-prop"><span class=secno>6.3
       </span>Ligatures: the font-variant-ligatures property</a>
@@ -478,8 +478,8 @@ <h2 id=typography-background><span class=secno>2 </span>Typography
    languages, not just Russian.
 
   <p>Fonts provide a character map that details the set of characters for
-   they have glyphs. If a document contains characters not supported by a
-   specified font, a user agent may revert to a system font fallback
+   which they have glyphs. If a document contains characters not supported by
+   a specified font, a user agent may revert to a system font fallback
    procedure to find glyphs to render these characters correctly. If no font
    can be found, some form of "missing glyph" character is rendered by the
    user agent. Often these are the result of encoding errors caused by
@@ -586,11 +586,11 @@ <h3 id=font-family-prop><span class=secno>3.1 </span>Font family: the <a
    <pre>body { 
     font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; 
 }</pre>
-  </div>
 
-  <p>If Helvetica is available it will be used when rendering. If neither
-   Helvetica or Verdana is present, then the user agent defined sans serif
-   font will be used.
+   <p>If Helvetica is available it will be used when rendering. If neither
+    Helvetica nor Verdana is present, then the user-agent-defined sans serif
+    font will be used.</p>
+  </div>
 
   <p>There are two types of font family names:
 
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ <h3 id=font-family-prop><span class=secno>3.1 </span>Font family: the <a
     class=property><a href="#fantasy">fantasy</a></code>’, and ‘<code
     class=property><a href="#monospace">monospace</a></code>’. These
     keywords can be used as a general fallback mechanism when an author's
-    desired font choices are not available. As keywords, they should not be
+    desired font choices are not available. As keywords, they must not be
     quoted. Authors are encouraged to append a generic font family as a last
     alternative for improved robustness.
   </dl>
@@ -1208,7 +1208,7 @@ <h3 id=font-size-prop><span class=secno>3.5 </span>Font size: the <a
   <p>The following table provides user agent's guideline for the
    absolute-size scaling factor and their mapping to XHTML heading and
    absolute font-sizes. The ‘<code class=property>medium</code>’ value is
-   used as the reference middle value. The user agent may fine tune these
+   used as the reference middle value. The user agent may fine-tune these
    values for different fonts or different types of display devices.
 
   <table class=data>
@@ -1620,11 +1620,10 @@ <h3 id=font-prop><span class=secno>3.7 </span>Shorthand font property: the
     href="#propdef-font-variant">font-variant</a></code>’</span> and <span
     class=property>‘<code class=property><a
     href="#descdef-font-weight">font-weight</a></code>’</span> explicitly,
-    so these properties receive their initial values so this property
-    receives its initial value (‘<code class=property>normal</code>’).
-    Notice that the font family name "new century schoolbook", which contains
-    spaces, is enclosed in quotes. The fourth rule sets the <span
-    class=property>‘<code class=property><a
+    so these properties receive their initial values (‘<code
+    class=property>normal</code>’). Notice that the font family name "new
+    century schoolbook", which contains spaces, is enclosed in quotes. The
+    fourth rule sets the <span class=property>‘<code class=property><a
     href="#descdef-font-weight">font-weight</a></code>’</span> to ‘<code
     class=property>bold</code>’, the <span class=property>‘<code
     class=property><a
@@ -1898,12 +1897,12 @@ <h3 id=src-desc><span class=secno>4.3 </span>Font reference: the <a
   </table>
 
   <p>This descriptor specifies the resource containing font data. It is
-   required, whether the font is downloadable or locally installed. It's
-   value is a prioritized, comma-separated list of external references or
-   locally installed font face names. When a font is needed the user agent
-   iterates over the set of references listed, using the first one it can
-   successfully activate. Fonts containing invalid data are treated as if
-   they were not found, the user agent loads the next font in the list.
+   required, whether the font is downloadable or locally installed. Its value
+   is a prioritized, comma-separated list of external references or locally
+   installed font face names. When a font is needed the user agent iterates
+   over the set of references listed, using the first one it can successfully
+   activate. Fonts containing invalid data are treated as if they were not
+   found, the user agent loads the next font in the list.
 
   <p>External references consist of a URI, followed by an optional hint
    regarding the format of the font resource referenced by that URI. The
@@ -2020,8 +2019,8 @@ <h3 id=src-desc><span class=secno>4.3 </span>Font reference: the <a
    defined in the font name table is used to reference a given face. In cases
    where multiple localizations are supported, the English version is used or
    the first localization when an English fullname is not available. User
-   agents that also match other non-English fullnames, matching the Dutch
-   name when the current system locale is set to Dutch, are considered
+   agents that also match other non-English fullnames, e.g. matching the
+   Dutch name when the current system locale is set to Dutch, are considered
    non-conformant. This is done to avoid matching inconsistencies across font
    versions and OS platforms, since font style names (e.g. Bold) are
    frequently localized into many languages and the set of languages
@@ -2243,8 +2242,8 @@ <h3 id=unicode-range-desc><span class=secno>4.5 </span>Character range: the
    clipped to the domain of Unicode code points (currently 0 - 10FFFF
    inclusive); a range entirely outside the domain is omitted. Without any
    valid ranges, the descriptor is omitted. User agents may normalize the
-   list of ranges into a list that is different but represents the equivalent
-   set of character code points.
+   list of ranges into a list that is different but represents the same set
+   of character code points.
 
   <p>The character range can be a subset of the full character map of the
    underlying font. The effective unicode-range used when mapping characters
@@ -2404,7 +2403,7 @@ <h3 id=unicode-range-desc><span class=secno>4.5 </span>Character range: the
     Japanese font, U+3000-9FFF and U+ff??, does not include U+21E8, so the
     user agent does not download the Japanese font. Next the fallback font is
     considered. The @font-face rule for the fallback font does not define
-    unicode-range so it's value defaults to the range of all Unicode code
+    unicode-range so its value defaults to the range of all Unicode code
     points. The fallback font is downloaded and used to render the arrow
     character.</p>
   </div>
@@ -2572,20 +2571,10 @@ <h2 id=font-matching-algorithm><span class=secno>5 </span>Font matching
    <li>If no matching face exists or the matched face does not contain a
     glyph for the character to be rendered, the next family name is selected
     and the previous two steps repeated. If the matched font is defined via
-    an @font-face rule, the font resource is downloaded. Otherwise if the
-    matched font is defined via @font-face and needs to be downloaded, the
-    user agent can either wait until the font is downloaded or render once
-    with substituted font metrics and render again once the font is
-    downloaded. <!--
-  Old wording: The UA may choose to block on this download or may
-  choose to proceed to the next step while the font downloads. UAs that
-  do not implement font download, or are not connected to a network, or
-  where the user preferences have disabled font download, or where the
-  requested resource is unavailable for whatever reason, or where the
-  downloaded font cannot be used for whatever reason, are considered to
-  fail at this step. 
-  -->
-    
+    an @font-face rule, the font resource is downloaded. If the matched font
+    is defined via @font-face and needs to be downloaded, the user agent can
+    either wait until the font is downloaded or render once with substituted
+    font metrics and render again once the font is downloaded.
 
    <li>If there are no more font families to be evaluated and no matching
     face has been found, then the user agent performs a system font fallback
@@ -2704,7 +2693,7 @@ <h2 id=font-rend-props><span class=secno>6 </span>Font feature properties</h2>
    or more mutually exclusive values are used together (e.g. ‘<code
    class=property><a href="#common-ligatures">common-ligatures</a></code>’
    and ‘<code class=property><a
-   href="#no-common-ligatures">no-common-ligatures</a></code>’), the latter
+   href="#no-common-ligatures">no-common-ligatures</a></code>’), the last
    value is used when rendering text.
 
   <p>Like other font properties, font feature properties apply independent of
@@ -2802,8 +2791,8 @@ <h3 id=font-kerning-prop><span class=secno>6.1 </span>Kerning: the <a
    adjustments are made after kerning has been applied.</p>
   <!-- prop: character-transform -->
 
-  <h3 id=character-transform-prop><span class=secno>6.2 </span>Positional
-   character forms: the <a
+  <h3 id=character-transform-prop><span class=secno>6.2 </span>Subscript,
+   superscript and ordinal forms: the <a
    href="#propdef-character-transform">character-transform</a> property</h3>
 
   <table class=propdef id=namecharacter-transform>
@@ -3199,8 +3188,8 @@ <h3 id=font-variant-caps-prop><span class=secno>6.5 </span>Capitalization:
    <dt><dfn id=small-caps>small-caps</dfn>
 
    <dd>Enables display of small capitals (OpenType feature:
-    <code>smcp</code>). Small-caps glyphs are typically use the form of
-    uppercase letters but are reduced to the size of lowercase letters.
+    <code>smcp</code>). Small-caps glyphs typically use the form of uppercase
+    letters but are reduced to the size of lowercase letters.
   </dl>
 
   <div class=featex><img alt="small-caps example" src=smcp.png></div>
@@ -3663,7 +3652,7 @@ <h3 id=font-feature-settings-prop><span class=secno>6.9 </span>Low-level
    due to this property while a string value defines a specific set of font
    settings to be used when rendering. A null string is equivalent to
    specifying a value of ‘<code class=property>normal</code>’. This
-   property only affects font rendering, it's value does not affect font
+   property only affects font rendering, its value does not affect font
    selection.
 
   <p>The string used is specific to the type of font used. For OpenType
@@ -3743,8 +3732,8 @@ <h3 id=font-language-override-prop><span class=secno>6.10 </span>Font
      <td>as specified
   </table>
 
-  <p>The value of ‘<code class=property>normal</code>’ implies that the
-   when rendering with OpenType fonts the language of the document is used to
+  <p>The value of ‘<code class=property>normal</code>’ implies that when
+   rendering with OpenType fonts the language of the document is used to
    infer the OpenType language system, used to select language specific
    features when rendering. The value of the &lt;string&gt; is a single
    three-letter OpenType <a
@@ -3808,7 +3797,7 @@ <h2 id=rendering-considerations><span class=secno>7 </span>Rendering
    <li>If the font is defined via an @font-face rule, the font features
     implied by the font-feature-settings descriptor in the @font-face rule.
 
-   <li>Font features implied by the value of ‘<code class=property><a
+   <li>Font features implied by the value of the ‘<code class=property><a
     href="#propdef-font-variant">font-variant</a></code>’ property, the
     related font-variant subproperties and any other CSS property that may
     use OpenType features (e.g. the ‘<code class=property><a
@@ -4038,8 +4027,8 @@ <h2 class=no-num id=platform-props-to-css>Appendix B: Mapping platform font
    Arabic and Devanagari requires features present only in OpenType or AAT
    fonts. Currently, complex script rendering is supported on Windows and
    Linux using OpenType font features while AAT font features are used under
-   Mac OS X. Apple has indicated it intends support complex script rendering
-   using OpenType font features in the future.
+   Mac OS X. Apple has indicated it intends to support complex script
+   rendering using OpenType font features in the future.
 
   <h2 class=no-num id=font-licensing>Appendix C: Font licensing issues</h2>
 
@@ -4055,7 +4044,7 @@ <h2 class=no-num id=font-licensing>Appendix C: Font licensing issues</h2>
    the scope of the font license. Many commercial fonts presently do not
    allow web downloading of their fonts in any form. Font formats often store
    references to the font license within the font data itself. When in doubt,
-   it's best to verify with the font designer directly. Vendors that bundle
+   it is best to verify with the font designer directly. Vendors that bundle
    fonts with their products are also strongly encouraged to carefully
    explain the license details that covers the fonts they bundle.