Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-break][css-display] box-decoration-break and multi-box inline elements

Patch (which could maybe use some wordsmithing):

```diff
diff --git a/css-break-3/Overview.bs b/css-break-3/Overview.bs
index f3cab08..a7748ed 100644
--- a/css-break-3/Overview.bs
+++ b/css-break-3/Overview.bs
@@ -1036,10 +1036,19 @@ Fragmented Borders and Backgrounds: the 'box-decoration-break' property</h3>
     on the left, the value ''slice'', on the right the value ''clone''.
   </div>
 
-  <p>UAs may also apply 'box-decoration-break' to control rendering
-  at bidi-imposed breaks, i.e. when bidi reordering causes an inline
-  to split into non-contiguous fragments. Otherwise such breaks are
-  always handled as ''slice''.
+  <p>UAs may also apply 'box-decoration-break'
+  to control rendering at bidi-imposed breaks--
+  i.e. when bidi reordering causes an inline to split into non-contiguous fragments--
+  and/or at display-type&ndash;imposed breaks--
+  i.e. when a higher-level <a>display type</a>
+  (such as a <a>block-level box</a> / <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-multicol-1/#spanning-columns">column spanner</a>)
+  splits an incompatible ancestor
+  (such as an <a>inline box</a> / <a>block container</a>).
+  Otherwise such breaks are always handled as ''slice''.
+  See [[css-writing-modes-3#bidi-algo|Applying the Bidirectional Reorderign Algorithm]]
+  in [[css-writing-modes-3#text-direction|CSS Writing Modes]],
+  <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#box-gen">CSS2&sect;9.2 Block-level elements and block boxes</a>,
+  and <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-multicol-1/#spanning-columns">CSS Multi-column Layout &sect;6 Spanning Columns</a>.
 
   <p class=note>
   For inline elements, which side of a fragment is considered the broken edge
```

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