Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] Reconsidering the CSS letter-spacing model (#10193)

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.)


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