Re: Text Justification Infos

Hi Fantasai,

At the moment I am working on some notes on line breaking and justification
issues for a number of South East Asian scripts (not Lao or Thai at this
stage) for a side project I am working on.

When my notes are finalised I can share them.

Andrew

On 18 Aug 2016 5:14 pm, "fantasai" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
> I was tasked with linking the CSS 'text-justify' spec to i18n
> advice on justification. The i18n WG pointed me at
>   http://w3c.github.io/typography/#justification
>
> Unfortunately, I don't really find this to be an adequately
> solid reference for various reasons including
>   a) It's a github page, which may or may not exist 10 years from now.
>   b) It's a fragment identifier, which can't be redirected if that
>      information moves, such as for the eminently reasonable reason
>      that somebody split the long multi-subject document into sub-
>      pages.
>   c) It's just a list of links, which is a little hard to understand,
>      doesn't provide much guidance to newcomers to the topic, and
>      doesn't have the space to provide guidance from i18n/CSSWG to
>      implementers on how to translate requirements to technology.
>
> So I drafted up a W3C Note that expands on that info:
>
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2016Aug/att-0004/text-justify-i18n.html
>
> I am hoping the i18nWG would be willing to take up the publication
> and maintenance of this document so that I can point CSS3 Text at
> it. :)
>
> Thanks~
>
> ~fantasai
>