- From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:44:55 +0100
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp>, www-style@w3.org
Håkon Wium Lie wrote: > Answering my own request, how about a property that list visible > and invisible lengths, starting with a visible length. For example: > > border-parts: 1em auto 2em > > would split the border into three parts: (1) a visible 1em part, (2) > an invisible part which fills the remaning room until (3) a visible > 2em part appears. [...] > If more than one 'auto' value is specified, it's split equally between > the two parts: > > border-parts: 1em auto 2em auto 2em Knuth found it desirable to have different degrees of infinite glue, as well as the ability to have varying amounts of infinite glue of the same degree of infiniteness, as in : \hskip 0 pt plus 1 fil \hskip 0 pt plus 2 fil \hskip 0 pt plus 1 fill \hskip 0 pt plus 2 fill \hskip 0 pt plus 1 filll \hskip 0 pt plus 2 filll as well as negative infinite glue : \hskip 0 pt plus -1 fil Is there any possibility that CSS might benefit from similar degrees of freedom ? Philip TAYLOR
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