Re: [css3-text] Balance Text proposal

Hi Randy:

I'm wondering whether your proposal will affect pagination of text.

Specifically, I'm thinking of a case where we had two pages (or perhaps
columns, if that's easier to think about), such that the text-wrap would
make one column more narrow, does this affect balancing of columns?

~Scott

Thus Spoke Randy Edmunds:
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> Hi www-style,
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> I would like to propose a new value for the text-wrap property:
> 'text-wrap:balance'
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> The basic algorithm for rendering text is simple: put as much text as
> will fit on each line, with the remainder on the last line. This
> results in the fewest possible lines of text being used, but when a
> short run text (such as in a title) breaks across two lines the result
> can sometimes be visually undesirable.
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> When rendering text that spans multiple lines, this feature provides
> the option to automatically balance text across the same number of lines.
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> The intended usage for balance text algorithm is for short text
> elements such as headings, blockquotes, labels, and captions. When the
> algorithm is applied to large paragraphs of text, the effort increases
> and the benefit diminishes, so there may need to be a way to specify a
> maximum length of text.
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> As an example, take a title that's a little too wide to fit on one line:
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> Take a Look at this Balanced
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> with 'text-wrap:balance' specified, the title would be rendered as:
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> Take a Look at 
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> this Balanced Text
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> There's a JavaScript polyfill for this:
> https://github.com/adobe-webplatform/balance-text
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> I also describe an algorithm for implementing this :
> http://adobe-webplatform.github.com/balance-text/proposal/index.html
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> Regards,
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> Randy Edmunds
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> redmunds@adobe.com <mailto:redmunds@adobe.com>
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