Technical: Document: refine/expand list of centred glyphs for <CASE>

Bug #676539 reported by Paul Sladen
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Bug Description

Implemention of the <CASE> (bug #676538) currently shifts '-' hyphen upwards, but not '+' plus.

In order to keep the example pairs in bug #676465 aligned (- + =), then the list of glyphs bumped upwards by the script needs to be refined and probably slightly expanded.

Currently the list of <CASE>-affected codepoints are:

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David Marshall (dave-daltonmaag) wrote : Re: [Bug 676539] [NEW] Technical: refine/expand list of centred glyphs for <CASE>

I would strongly recommend that the "+", and other maths symbols, do not
move when the "case" feature is applied. If a "-" is being used in text
with the feature applied, it's probably being used as a hyphen, not as a
maths symbol. "+", "<", ">", etc. however, are always maths symbols, and
should continue to correctly align with digits, not with "-", whether
the "case" feature is applied or not.

Dave

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: Technical: refine/expand list of centred glyphs for <CASE>

Could we document the list (~12) glyphs that are currently being shifted by <case>... I'm personally happy to close it after that as we've got the rationale document (alignment with numbers).

Paul Sladen (sladen)
summary: - Technical: refine/expand list of centred glyphs for <CASE>
+ Technical: Document: refine/expand list of centred glyphs for <CASE>
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Malcolm Wooden (malcolm-daltonmaag) wrote :

Characters that have 'case' variation glyphs are as follows:
parenleft parenright hyphen slash at bracketleft backslash bracketright braceleft braceright guilsinglleft bullet endash emdash guilsinglright exclamdown guillemotleft guillemotright questiondown.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Malcolm: thanks!

description: updated
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
assignee: Malcolm Wooden (malcolm-daltonmaag) → nobody
status: Incomplete → Opinion
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