RE: [css-text] I18N-ISSUE-331: No kashida style or relationship to styles 'distribute' and 'inter-word' from Phillips, Addison on 2014-04-21 (www-style@w3.org from April 2014)

From: Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 04:52:46 +0000
To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
CC: "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
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> >
> >> * “auto” automagically does the best justification for the content
> >> language
> >
> > Is there any room for disagreement about "the best"?  The great bulk
> > of printed English text is justified, but many people prefer ragged right.
> 
> Yes. And it depends on the situation. On the Web, ragged right is so popular as
> to be close to "the best", even if that's just a result of
> (former?) browser technology limitations.
> 

Sure, but presumably "auto" would not be a synonym for "none"...

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