[csswg-drafts] [css-text-4] Allow for paragraph-level line breaking

litherum has just created a new issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-text-4] Allow for paragraph-level line breaking ==
There are a few algorithms which attempt to choose line breaks within 
a paragraph in order to maximize the beauty of the paragraph as a 
whole. Such algorithms try to do some subset of:
* Minimize hyphenation
* Minimize extra space at the end of each line (or between words for 
justified text)
* Minimize rivers
* Minimize widows/orphans
* Minimize two hyphenated lines in a row
* Minimize visual differences between adjacent lines
* Minimize single-syllable or single-word last lines
* For paginated media, minimize single lines at the beginning or end 
of pages
* More?

Obviously, it is impossible to satisfy all these desires 
simultaneously for arbitrary paragraphs. The exact algorithm should 
not be specced for these reasons:
* Browsers should be allowed to innovate with heuristics of deciding 
how hard to try to solve one item at the expense of the other items
* Browsers should be allowed to teach and improve their 
implementations about new typographical conventions as time goes by
* Criteria for beautiful paragraphs are locale- and language-specific
* Different user agents may wish to provide different thresholds of 
participation (e.g. only consider a sliding window of n lines, or bail
 after x milliseconds of compute time, etc.)

Instead, there should be a way for a web author to opt-in to 
paragraph-level layout for beautiful paragraphs.

I'm not sure what the best mechanism for this is. Perhaps a new value 
to the text-wrap property? Perhaps a new property? Perhaps something 
else?

Please view or discuss this issue at 
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/672 using your GitHub 
account

Received on Wednesday, 2 November 2016 07:48:24 UTC