- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:50:04 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>, Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>, W3C Emailing list for WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
On May 28, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > suspect that the either the way the fil unit or the "plus" operator > works in TeX prevents it from ever representing a negative value. If > you see "plus 1fil", you know that it will *only* increase the value, > never decrease, while "minus 1fil" only decreases, never increases. > > Coming from a world with those sorts of assumptions, it makes sense to > me as to why Zack's somewhat unhappy with calc(10px + 1fl). I don't > think that's necessarily a reason to cater to those assumptions, but I > understand them. ^_^ Sure, I understand how his experience gives him an odd point of view for this. But I think Web authors, like myself, are more likely to be familiar with JavaScript and with normal math (where adding a negative is the same as subtracting a positive, and where a "+" is most commonly used this way [or for concatenation, which doesn't apply here]), than with TeX and its "plus" operator.
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