- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 10:40:55 -0800
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:35 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > On 01/05/2012 03:33 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> fantasai wrote: >>> Tab Atkins wrote: >>>> If so, this seems suboptimal, as it's then impossible to, say, use >>>> calc() to set the word-spacing to a particular length. (I had >>>> expected "calc(0% + 1ch)" to kinda work like that.) Perhaps we can >>>> alter word-spacing to accept both a percentage and a length, and >>>> combine their effects? >>> >>> word-spacing takes up to three values, so that wouldn't be parseable. >> >> Oh, darn, I missed that. Is it possible to change<spacing-limit> at >> this point, perhaps to a grammar like [...] > > (We don't, generally, add keywords for the sub-parts of multi-value > properties, in case you haven't noticed. :) Yeah, I know, but there's always a first! > Alternatively, I could change percentages to be additive, too. It means > word-spacing: -100%; would set the word spacing to zero, which is a little > weird, but it would solve the problem you raise. What do you think? Yeah, this would work. ~TJ
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