- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:51:15 -0400
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 03:50 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * L. David Baron wrote: > >http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#tab-size defines a 'tab-size' > >property taking an integer to be multiplied by the advance width of > >the space (U+0020) character. > > >Should 'tab-size' instead use the '0' width rather than the ' ' > >width? I think I would prefer such a change. One en (i.e. M/2) would be both more usual and less surprising. The problem with basing tab widths on the current font is that users of "wysiwyg" tools may accidentally have an "italic tab" that then wouldn't line up properly. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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