Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] Should text-wrap-style:balance be allowed to affect the block height? (#10186)

Typographically I don’t mind reducing changing the number of lines from MUST to SHOULD (there are edge cases where removing a very short last line can achieve better balance). But I don’t think we should allow more than adding or removing one line. There are definitely cases where a headline could be more “balanced” by doubling the number of lines, but that’s not going to be an intended or good result.

Also, would we need to adjust this metric?

> Line boxes are balanced when the standard deviation from the average [inline-size] of the remaining space in each line box is reduced over the block (including lines that end in a forced break).

Is a comparison of the standard deviation across N-1 or N+1 lines to the standard deviation of N lines still valid?



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