[CSSWG][css-inline-3] Updated WD of CSS Inline Layout L3

The CSS WG has published an updated Working Draft of the CSS Inline Layout 
Module Level 3:

     https://www.w3.org/TR/css-inline-3/

This module defines inline layout and the sizing of line boxes, and introduces 
a special layout mode for drop-caps.

Interesting changes since the previous WD include:
   * Adding a 'leading' value to 'initial-letter-align' to handle drop-cap
     behavior for certain Indic scripts such as Tamil. (i18n review requested)
       https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/864
 
https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/WD-css-inline-3-20200827/#valdef-initial-letter-align-leading 

   * Dropping 'hebrew' from 'initial-letter-align' rather than treating it
     as a placeholder for the general issue of missing writing systems
       https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5244
   * Various adjustments to initial letter layout.

All significant changes are listed at:
   https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/WD-css-inline-3-20200827/#changes

Please review the draft, and send any comments to the CSSWG mailing list,
<www-style@w3.org>, prefixed with [css-inline-3] (as I did on this
message) or (preferably) file them in the GitHub repository at
   https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues

For the CSS WG,
~fantasai

Received on Thursday, 27 August 2020 05:49:18 UTC