CSS3 Text Unstable
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fantasai's CSS3 Text action items:

  - Write prioritised list of problems with Text module
  - Figure out which parts of CSS3 Text look stable.

Rather than surprise you all in June, I thought it would
be a better idea if I started listing sections I consider
"unstable" (i.e. may possibly be significantly changed).

List of Unstable Sections of CSS3 Text
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  - ALL of Text Layout (Chapter 1)
      See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2003Jul/0146.html
      for an introduction.
      See http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/discuss/vertical-text/
      for proposed replacement model.

  - min-font-size and max-font-size (Section 4.4) and
    maybe also the 'size' value of 'text-align-last' (section 4.3)
      I strongly believe these shouldn't be restricted
      to the last line; they're much more useful as a
      general-purpose constraint, particularly min-font-size.
      I'm not sure about having 'auto' as the initial value.
      I also think they belong in the Fonts module. =Resolved=

  - Line Breaking (Chapter 6)
      Properties are poorly organized, i.e. very mixed-up.
      See thread http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004Oct/0035.html

  - White Space Control EXCEPT 'white-space'
      (Well, 'white-space''s prose may need changing, but
       CSS2.1's definitions will stay definitive.)

      line-break-treatment, white-space-treatment, and all-space-treatment
      give too many unnecessary (and useless) combinations; they should
      probably be collapsed into one property (see
       http://fantasai.tripod.com/www-style/2002/white-space-test.html
      for a table of all possible combinations)
      See thread http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004Oct/0035.html

      handle UNICODE line break requirements

  - 'hanging-punctuation' (Section 11.2)
      Because hanging punctuation, esp. with hyphens, may happen
      in Latin typography as well, and I'd like to make it less
      vague about such things.

  - text-script should accept ISO codes

  - Specify that NBSP gets justified along with regular spaces

  - Create value of 'text-autospace' to handle French typesetting?

  - 'text-combine' (Section 11.3)
      If there are no implementations of 'letters', I'd like to
      change the keyword to 'cluster', 'coz that makes more sense...

  - change wrap-option's 'emergency' value to make sense.

  - To be continued...


Notes for Possible Extensions and Explanations
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  - For applications that want to support it, a 'last-line-length'
    property that takes a minimum and maximum value (cropped to
    100%) for the length of the last line. Applications with support
    for sophisticated rewrapping can use it to restrict the last
    line to an appropriate range. 'last-line-length: 100%' would
    also be useful to even out multi-line titles.
    [find post]

  - Dropping vowel diacritics in semitic scripts (Hebrew, Arabic).
    (This is a type of text transformation.)
    [find post]

  - Setting optimal, minimum, and maximum word/letter-spacing

  - specify which side(s) of letter letter spacing applies to

  - "direction: auto"
    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224685

~fantasai