Re: Region overflow proposal

On Monday 2012-08-06 22:14 -0700, Alan Stearns wrote:
> In example 5, have you considered how to style the second column of the
> second (or subsequent) region boxes? This might become a use case for
> chaining pseudo-elements.

Indeed.

> An alternative to max-lines could be an nth-line pseudo-element. Setting
> break-after on ::nth-line(3) with an auto-height box would accomplish the
> same thing as max-lines:3, and nth-line could be put to other uses as well.

Perhaps, though ::nth-line sounds somewhat scary, and supporting
break-after on it more so.  (The max-lines solution also might
interact with 'widows' and 'orphans' better.)

-David

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