- From: Brady Duga <duga@ljug.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:04:47 -0700
- To: W3C CSS <www-style@w3.org>
- Cc: Brady Duga <duga@ljug.com>
Apropos of another discussion currently going on, it might be interesting to examine the performance penalty of allowing wrapping around non-rectangular images. Currently, the height of a line cannot reduce the length of a line. That is, using floats you can calculate the maximum possible width of a line with only the top edge (insert other possible edges for other writing directions). If the text had to wrap around the contour, the length of the line would depend on both the top and bottom edges of the line box. Of course, you won't know the bottom edge (in the general case) until you know the available length. It seems like a bad idea to introduce the ability to modify the length of a line based on the height of its text. While there may be simple solutions for some line breaking algorithms (e.g. best fit or first fit), it would be difficult to implement using a total fit algorithm (i.e. TeX line breaking). --Brady
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