- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:47:24 +0200
- To: "Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd):
> > border-parts: 1em auto 2em auto 2em
>
> Knuth found it desirable to have different degrees of
> infinite glue, as well as the ability to have varying
> amounts of infinite glue of the same degree of
> infiniteness, as in :
>
> \hskip 0 pt plus 1 fil
> \hskip 0 pt plus 2 fil
> \hskip 0 pt plus 1 fill
> \hskip 0 pt plus 2 fill
> \hskip 0 pt plus 1 filll
> \hskip 0 pt plus 2 filll
Right. Knuth also controlled the implemenation and didn't have to test
combinatoral explosions in various browsers :)
I'm intrigued by the power of expression and the elegant and humorous
syntax for it. But, do we have a hard-hitting use case?
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Wednesday, 15 October 2008 13:48:08 UTC