Re: [css-text] Preventing typographic orphans

There are both stylistic and semantic reasons that pertain to last line
break and content. It is not one or the other in general. CSS should
probably support the necessary properties to effect the stylistic
requirements. Whether it should go as far as specifying language specific
behavior is doubtful.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Sebastian Zartner <
sebastianzartner@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4 January 2015 at 20:19, Jens Oliver Meiert wrote:
> >
> > > This is awfully hacky and there *really* should be a better way to do
> this.
> >
> > A quick +1, for this seems *really* like a CSS concern. We should not
> > all of a sudden advocate no-break spaces and such for this is
> > absolutely not a content issue.
> >
> > I can’t see a clearer case for something CSS should handle, and I’m
> > glad Lea brought it up. And it’d be funny if of all times now we’d get
> > all antsy about adding something :|
>
> The problem here is the grammatically correct wrapping of lines. And
> that doesn't sound like something that needs to be controllable via
> CSS. Rather the UAs should be in charge of doing the line wrapping
> right in regard of the used language.
>
> Sebastian
>
>