Re: text-indent/exdent (was "suggestion")

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, fantasai wrote:
>
>   a) As I said, "Indentation is always on the starting
>      side of the text. (left for ltr, right for rtl)"
>      whereas padding is given an absolute side. Using
>      padding-left for indentation causes problems with
>      rtl scripts.

It is very likely that a property called "padding-start" will be
introduced which is the same as padding-left but on the starting edge.
(ditto padding-before, padding-after, padding-end, margin-before, etc).

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