- From: Scott Johnson <sjohnson@mozilla.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:27:11 -0600
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Randy Edmunds <redmunds@adobe.com>
Alan, Thanks! I missed that section. ~Scott On Wed 30 Jan 2013 06:10:01 PM CST, Alan Stearns wrote: > On 1/30/13 3:55 PM, "Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> 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 > > Scott, > > The page that Randy linked describing the algorithm covers this - take a > look at the "Container Size" section: > > --- > This algorithm does not affect the width or height of the containing > element as this may affect rendering of the rest of the document. The > resulting text will always wrap to same number of lines as original text > so height doesn't change. Line width of resulting text should not > exceed container size to width doesn't change. It only affects where > line breaks occur. > > One exception to this may be shrink-to-fit containers. > --- > > > So page and/or column width should not be affected. We'd need to decide > whether shrink-to-fit containers would respond to the possibly shorter > line lengths. > > Thanks, > > Alan > >> >> Thus Spoke Randy Edmunds: >> >> >> Hi www-style, >> >> I would like to propose a new value for the text-wrap property: >> 'text-wrap:balance' >> >> 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. >> >> When rendering text that spans multiple lines, this feature provides the >> option to automatically balance text across the same number of lines. >> >> 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. >> >> As an example, take a title that's a little too wide to fit on one line: >> >> Take a Look at this Balanced >> Text >> >> with 'text-wrap:balance' specified, the title would be rendered as: >> >> Take a Look at >> this Balanced Text >> >> >> There¹s a JavaScript polyfill for this: >> >> https://github.com/adobe-webplatform/balance-text >> >> I also describe an algorithm for implementing this : >> >> http://adobe-webplatform.github.com/balance-text/proposal/index.html >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Randy Edmunds >> redmunds@adobe.com >> >> >> >> >> >> > >
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