Comment 5 for bug 615435
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| Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote Re: Style decision: numerals are fixed-width (tnum/tabular) instead of (pnum/proportional) | #5 |
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(Note example from dup of "Linux2Go").
It's a policy decision with good arguments for either default (tnum/pnum). It's arguably possible (although long-term and by no means immediate) to fix spreadsheet, list-numbers containing only numerals to request the tnum alternatives and have that request passed back down the stack to Freetype; eg. the design of the font should not be held back by present-day limitations that can be fixed later.
If the policy decision is to