Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-inline] better name for initial-letters property

Looking at this fresh, I feel like we are struggling to make `initial` work in any sort of way, and it's just now working. CSS Properties are descriptive of the change that the property will make (like `font-size`), and not of the motivation for making the change (not 'readable-type`). Initial ends up sounding like an adjective, and gets easily confused with `first-letter`. It doesn't come across as a noun. 

I like what `line-span` does — it describes the context, affecting lines, and the result, setting a span across several lines. But as many have argued, `span` could be easily confused with its other meanings in HTML & CSS. 

What if we try to find other words to do what `line-span` would do. Synonyms for "span" include: 
interval
length
period
space
spell
stretch
term
amount
compass
extent
measure
reach
spread
time

`line-spread`? 
`line-reach`?
`character-spread`?
???

Then you'd end up with 
`character-spread-align` 
`character-spread-wrap`
or
`line-reach-align`
`line-reach-wrap`
or something down this road...


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