- From: jfkthame via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 10:50:02 +0000
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Yes, this does indeed break alignment in such cases. I would suggest, though, that the "breakage" is pretty insignificant. The amount of letter-spacing used in the main text of that HK gov site seems quite unusual to me; I rarely see so much spacing applied to blocks of body text. Yet in my opinion, the result still looks perfectly acceptable: ![image](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/assets/1706499/ecd422a0-9b26-4e64-8912-8e3ba0da8b99) It's true that the main text is not perfectly left-aligned with the header, but I suspect most users won't even notice this. I think this is a reasonable price to pay for getting more consistent behavior in right-aligned or centered content, bidi cases, etc. (Incidentally, that page also includes an example of how symmetrical letter-spacing visibly improves results: with left-aligned letter-spacing, the caption under the photograph appears misaligned: ![image](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/assets/1706499/f8b85b7b-ab6d-48b0-ba91-db1e6bb47c52) whereas with symmetrical spacing, we get: ![image](https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/assets/1706499/87f6305b-75ae-4e2b-b3b5-83ed73fcd4ff) which looks better balanced.) -- GitHub Notification of comment by jfkthame Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10193#issuecomment-2058798278 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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