Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-inline-3] text-edge-over/text-edge-under vs text-edge shorthand (#5236)

I am not convinced we need the longhands, but we should certainly have a shorthand. The simplest grammar would probably be this:

```
text-edge: leading | normal | <over-metric> <under-metric>
<over-metric>: text | cap | ex | ideographic | ideographic-ink
<under-metric>: text | alphabetic | ideographic | ideographic-ink
```

I suppose we could also make the second value optional, and map it to the same value as the first one in the cases where the pairs exist (`text`, `ideographic`, and `ideographic-ink`). What  the implied second value would be if you picked `cap` or `ex` as the over side is less obvious though. Maybe `cap`, which is a broad metric, might be matched with `text` for the under side, while `ex`, which is a tight metric, would be with `alphabetic`. 

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