- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:45:54 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 03/28/2015 09:50 AM, Brad Kemper wrote: > >> On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:39 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: >> >> On 03/18/2015 02:08 AM, Koji Ishii wrote: >>> 2015/03/11 2:42 "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com <mailto:brad.kemper@gmail.com>>: >>> >>>> I would like the characters that can hang on the end of a line to include a colon. The use case is common when you have >>>> right aligned labels ending in a colon. It looks weird when the lines wrap and the last word doesn't line up with the >>>> other words. >>>> >>>> Could colons be part of the hanging characters in 'hanging-punctuation: last'? Or could there be a new value, such as >>>> 'hanging-punctuation: last-loose', that hangs the characters in the [Po] category? >>> >>> I think it depends on author choices, scripts, etc. For instance, Japanese will not want colons to be included. >>> >>> I would like properties for finer controls be done in Level 4. fantasai? >> >> I'm not sure this is a case for hanging punctuation: >> you don't want the colon to be in the margin, you >> still want it to take up space. But you want it to be >> in a separate "column" in the layout. > > I'd be very happy to have it hanging in the right padding, > actually, so that everything else lined up on the right. > Or do you mean I wouldn't really get that anyway, due to > variable kerning, etc. between the colon and the second > to last letter? If you have a table of words with 8px gap between each cell, you don't want the cells that happen to end in a colon to have a 4ox gap because the colon is in the gap. You want extra padding corresponding to the colon to be added to the lines in that cell that don't end in a colon. ~fantasai
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