Re: [letter-spacing] clarification needed

> On Mar 1, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com> wrote:
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> From css2 <https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#propdef-letter-spacing>
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> "This property specifies spacing behavior between text characters"
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> Yet css3 Text Module <https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#letter-spacing-property> adds even more:
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> "Letter-spacing must not be applied at the beginning or at the end of a line."
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> But what if an inline <span> has letter-spacing set and its sibling runs has no or different letter-spacing? 
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> As far as I understand it should be render this way:
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> But Chrome (and all other UAs) render it as this:
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> Do we need to clarify letter-spacing further or that would be too much to ask?

I intend to fix this problem in WebKit (to align with the spec as it is currently written).

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> Test case: http://terrainformatica.com/w3/letter-spacing.htm <http://terrainformatica.com/w3/letter-spacing.htm>
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> Andrew Fedoniouk.
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