- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 05:02:03 +0100
- To: Peter Moulder <peter.moulder@monash.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Peter Moulder wrote:
> > I tend to think that
> > without whole-paragraph line break optimization, it's just going to
> > make things look funny and authors aren't going to want to use it
> > (perhaps with exceptions for very limited cases, like headings that
> > will appear on either one or two lines).
> I do agree that headings are a bit different, though: for a heading that
> takes up two lines, it can look a bit strange even if the second line has
> quite a decent length, like three words occupying a third of a line.
>
> So something like a last-line-length:50% declaration might be useful for
> headings (so long as it doesn't result in any other lines having a length
> less than 50%, at least).
It's somewhat similar to column balancing. Perhaps we only need a
binary switch to say "balance lines" rather than a fine-grained
percentage-based value.
> Another possible approach for headings: does CSS have anything that would
> have the effect of making lines have roughly equal length? That might be
> useful for pull-quotes, or for use with text-align-last:justify.
Perhaps:
text-align: balance; /* balance lines */
text-align: balance justify; /* balance and justify lines */
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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