- From: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 06:07:34 -0400
- To: Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com>, www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
> From: Edward O'Connor [mailto:eoconnor@apple.com] > > >> We're pretty settled on start/end for the logical inline directions, > >> but most people aren't that thrilled with before/after for the > >> logical block directions. Someone suggested head/tail as an > >> alternative. Would that be clearer? Do we want to switch? > > > > That is quite obscure, particularly for people who are not English speakers (and/or don't > 'think' in English). -before/-after is (conceptually) much clearer to me and says exactly > what is in the package. > > Agreed. Agreed too. MS Word and Mac TextEdit uses before/after for paragraph spacing. OpenOffice uses above/below. Maybe because I'm not Enligsh speaker but head/tail sounds like more inline direction than before/after to me. Regards, Koji
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