- From: Behnam Esfahbod via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:48:10 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
>From https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#boundary-shaping > Text shaping should not be broken across inline box boundaries otherwise, if it is reasonable and possible for that case given the limitations of the font technology. Although it's a good start, but the "if it is **reasonable and possible** for that case given the limitations of the font technology" part apparently makes it a matter of choice again and leaves a lot of room for inconsistency between implementations, and eventually, as a result of the inconsistencies, users not being able to rely on it. Regarding "joining context" of elements, has it been discussed to allow user to control it for `inline` elements, with options to *isolate* the element regarding joining or *absorb* context from surrounding? Why I think explicit method is better than implicit is that there exist cases that the element can have a margin/border/padding **and** also a non-`baseline` vertical alignment, and still the *joining context* should be preserved, for example, "drop caps" for Arabic. Here's an example of a drop caps being applied without proper *joining context* for either the first letter or the rest of the word:  Example is from this discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/persian-computing/W-Upl6DAEcg -- GitHub Notification of comment by behnam Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/698#issuecomment-297472304 using your GitHub account
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