- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:02:30 +0100
- To: liam@w3.org
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "Cramer\, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, "www-style\@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
Liam wrote:
> > > make the element inline if it takes up less than a line, otherwise
> > > make it a a block
>
> Yes, that makes sense. Inline mathematical equations might be treated
> similarly, and also chemical formulæ and molecular structure diagrams -
> in general, equations and small figures.
Indeed. The ED of the CSS Box model allows consecutive run-ins:
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-box/#run-in-boxes
So, one could do:
.footnote { display: run-in }
And have the footnotes end up on the same line if they are short enough.
White space around the run-ins could still be an issue. E.g., in this:
http://w3c.github.io/dpub-pagination/images/PepysFootnotes.jpg
the inline-level footnotes have horizontal margins/padding. Setting
spacing on run-ins -- which could end up as inline or block -- can be
tricky. This code:
.footnote { display: run-in; margin: 0 2em }
could work for inline footnotes, but perhaps the margins would be
different for block-level foonotes. Perhaps we need a pseudo-class on
the run-in to match its different states:
.footnote:display(inline) { .. }
.footnote:display(block) { .. }
Hmm.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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