- From: Scott Kellum via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:17:03 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
There are 3 things we need to control here to make justified text look great. 1. **Hyphenation control** book design software usually lets you dial in how liberal it gets with hyphenation, better spacing vs fewer hyphens. 2. **Whitespace control** where a designer can allocate how excess space per line is allocated (between words, letters, or stretching character forms) 3. **Text wrapping** allocating what words fall on various lines This issue addresses item 2 in this list. While `text-wrap: balance` is very exciting for designers, I’m skeptical `text-wrap: pretty` is going to solve the issues of whitespace, unless I am mistaken (please point out if I am!), `text-wrap` doesn’t change if extra space is placed between words or between letters. For context, here is the equivalent to what I am proposing here in InDesign. These aren’t considered “magic numbers” but carefully define how whitespace behaves in text. I think InDesign’s implementation is both complicated from an authoring standpoint and likely less performant from an implementation standpoint so I tried to create a more simplified version with just one value for word spacing, one value for letter spacing, and one value for glyph scaling, as opposed to 3 values for each. <img width="414" alt="Screenshot 2023-06-20 at 3 09 58 PM" src="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/assets/377189/46caf917-f82f-45b9-a274-25faa4102d4f"> I am not married to the proposal above, but I would love to solve the issue of whitespace shaping in justified text blocks. -- GitHub Notification of comment by scottkellum Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7738#issuecomment-1599646536 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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