- From: Christoph Päper via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 18:02:31 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Crissov has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts: == [css-text] Support (Elastic) Tabstops == The [`tab-size` property](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#tab-size-property), determining the width of preserved Horizontal Tabulator (U+0009) chars, currently accepts `<number> | <length>` as its value. I wish CSS also supported a keyword to implement a basic version of [Elastic Tabstops](http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/), e.g. `elastic`, but without explicitly set tabstop positions. An _elastic_ tabulator would advance a single space width (`1ch`), except when there is also a tabulator in the line above, when it advances as much as is needed to align with that. A more complex proposal to specify fixed tabstops has been discussed briefly in the past on www-style by @NickGravgaard (inventor of Elastic Tabstops), @fantasai, @SimonSapin, @LiamQuin and myself without any apparent conclusion or result (except lack of implementer interest): - [original thread, Dec 2012](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Dec/0327.html) - [continuation, Jan 2013](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Jan/0001.html) - [reboot, Aug 2014](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Aug/0333.html) An earlier draft of this module has had tabstop support. - [Aug 2007 thread](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Aug/0035.html) Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3137 using your GitHub account
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