Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-anchor-position] Clarification: effect of `position-try-fallbacks` and `position-try-order` when the positioned box does not overflow (#13268)

FWIW, currently `position-try-order` [says](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/#position-try-order-property):

> This property allows an element to sort its [position options](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/#position-option) by the available space they define [...]

Whereas "position options" is [links to](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/#position-option):

> The @position-try rule defines a position option with a given name [...]

Which makes it sound like `@position-try` the one way to define position options.
... But then the "Overflow Management" section [says](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/#fallback):

> To ameliorate this, an [absolutely positioned](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-position-3/#absolute-position) box can use the [position-try-fallbacks](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/#propdef-position-try-fallbacks) property to specify additional [position options](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-anchor-position-1/#position-option)

So maybe needs a bit of clarification.

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