- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:26:05 +0200
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On Monday 21 July 2008 23:42, fantasai wrote:
> Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html says
> > "If the computed value of text-align is 'justify' while the
> > computed value of white-space is 'pre' or 'pre-line', the actual
> > value of text-align is set to the initial value."
> >
> > There are two problems:
> > 1) white-space can apply to inline elements, so this statement
> > doesn't achieve the apparent intent of disabling text-align:justify
> > on white-space:pre/pre-line elements. One could have a
> > white-space:normal, text-align:justify block containing a big lump
> > of white-space:pre content, or likewise a white-space:pre,
> > text-align:justify block containing white-space:normal content.
> > 2) Why are pre-line and pre singled out here, but pre-wrap is not?
> > pre-line without any newlines present behaves just like pre-wrap.
> >
> > I suggest this be replaced by a statement somewhere that
> > preformatted spaces may not be stretched by text-align:justify.
>
> Recorded as CSS2.1 Issue 53:
> http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-53
>
> Proposed text:
>
> Replace
> "If the computed value of text-align is 'justify' while the
> computed value of white-space is 'pre' ... initial value."
> with
> "When 'text-align' is 'justify', characters and letter-spacing
> whose computed value of white-space is not 'normal' and not 'nowrap'
> must not be stretched (or shrunk) during justification."
I think the idea is fine, although it may be a bit late to change it
now. It was already in the CR four years ago. But maybe we can contact
the implementers outside the WG that we know and ask if they mind
changing their code...
I don't like the proposed text very much, though. How about this:
In 16.2, replace
If the computed value of text-align is 'justify' while the computed
value of white-space is 'pre' or 'pre-line', the actual value of
text-align is set to the initial value.
with
If the computed value of 'text-align' is 'justify' and the computed
value of white-space is 'pre', 'pre-line' or 'pre-wrap', then the
actual value of 'text-align' is set to the initial value.
If an element has a computed value for 'white-space'
of 'pre', 'pre-line' or 'pre-wrap', then neither the glyphs in that
element nor the spaces between them must be stretched or shrunk for
the purposes of justification.
*Note* that this applies also to elements to which 'text-justify'
itself does not apply, e.g., inline elements in a justified
block-level element.
The first paragraph just adds the missing 'pre-wrap', but otherwise
keeps the notion of using the initial value for 'text-align', which
disappeared in Elika's rewrite.
The second tries to express what Elika's text said, but, I think, more
precisely.
The third is a note to explain what the difference between those two
paragraphs is.
> I also noticed that the note at the end of the section should be
> normative, not non-normative.
>
> Proposal:
>
> Make note after example normative.
No objection, but it doesn't seem to matter. It's redundant, hence the
note. It's also true, so you can make it normative. But whether
normative or not, it is not a testable statement.
Bert
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