[i18n-activity] Use of word justify

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== Use of word justify ==
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-align/

The spec has properties with names like justify-content, justify-self and justify-items.

This worries me because content authors already have difficulties understanding the difference between text-align: justify and the text-justify property, and now we seem to be introducing another sense for 'justify', for something which i actually think is alignment rather than justification. For me (and for Bringhurst) justification is to do with _setting text flush left and right_ on a line.

A much more appropriate alternative, imho, would be `arrange-content/self/items` (borrowing from Powerpoint's UI), though i would probably swap `arrange-content` and `align-content` (etc) so that `align` refers to inline direction, and `arrange` to line-stacking direction, because that works better with the current `text-align` concept.

Other possibilities might be `line-align` vs. `stack-align`, etc.. But i don't think `justify` is appropriate or helpful.


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Received on Thursday, 31 August 2017 17:29:51 UTC