- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 21:26:55 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Monday 2012-05-28 08:42 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Christoph Päper > <christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote: > > fantasai (2012-05-01): > >> We're pretty settled on start/end for the logical inline directions, > >> but most people aren't that thrilled with before/after for the logical > >> block directions. Someone suggested head/tail as an alternative. > > > > – ‘initial’ / ‘final’ > > – ‘begin’ / ‘stop’ > > – ‘head’ / ‘foot’ > > – ‘ceil’ / ‘floor’ > > 'head' / 'foot' actually makes some sense to me, as it corresponds to > the directions of the header/footer in a document. That's > writing-mode dependent, and easy to explain. (Plus, it always makes > me strangely happy when keyword pairs are the same length.) Are we sure 'head' / 'foot' are actually writing-mode-independent terms, as opposed to effectively being terms for 'top' / 'bottom'? -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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