Make missing glyphs (particularly, spaces and commas) invisible

[tabatkins]

It would be great if I could do something like:

<span style='color:red;'>al, tx, mi</span> <span style='color:blue;'>wi, ve, ca</span>

[bpmarkowitz]

This would be pretty easy to do. What is the proper markup for an invisible glyph?

[tabatkins]

In SVG, just give it a path that won't fill at all. In TTF, I presume it's similar.

[bpmarkowitz]

How would the CSS markup work? Letter spacing?

[tabatkins]

You can set the leading per-glyph, which is the amount of space that the letter takes up when laying out a word. This can be set to zero or even a negative value, to make a glyph overlap the previous one - this is used for combining characters like accents.

[bpmarkowitz]

Interesting. I am learning a lot about SVG on the fly. I am going to mark this as an enhancement and try to get it added in a future release. Thanks!