[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 27413] Built-up (vulgar) fractions using the Unicode fraction slash (or other methods) not supported

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27413


Robert Burns <robburns1 at mac.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Robert Burns <robburns1 at mac.com>  2009-11-30 23:49:09 PST ---
I'm not sure how the cocoa text system and NSText fits into the WebKit open
source project, but this is really an enhancement needed in the cocoa text
system. Right now some AAT fonts do the job quite nicely, but my sense is that
OpenType fonts do not have the control to do this (because I haven't found an
OpenType font that does it on any platform). So therefore I think with OpenType
fonts it is up tot he text rendering engine to implement the Unicode fraction
slash behavior. For AAT fonts this behavior can be implemented in the font, but
it would be nice for the rendering engine to do so if the font doesn't have any
of that intelligence.

Obviously MathML should handle fractions in the MathML way, but I do think we
should be getting Unicode fractions even in plain text without any special
fraction markup (including in HTML).

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