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[css-text-3] unclear detail of white space collapsing? #3513
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Section 4.1 says:
Any space immediately following another collapsible space [...] is collapsed to have zero advance width.
Shouldn't that be:
Any collapsible space immediately following another collapsible space [...] is collapsed to have zero advance width.
I'd rather be a little redundant to avoid suggesting that sequences mixing collapsible and non collapsible space do collapse.
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fantasai commentedon Jan 15, 2019
It's pretty clear from the wording introducing this particular list. Also if we were to be redundant here, we'd need to be redundant in every other item of this list. Given that I think I lean towards not making the change here...
frivoal commentedon Jan 15, 2019
I wondered about this bit of sentence because I wanted to be sure what the spec said for cases like
or
collapse or not? I think the answer is not to collapse in both cases, but with the current phrasing, I wasn't 100% sure for case 2.
Well, the entries on this list are supposed to be talking about collapsible spaces, so if there's only one mention of spaces in one entry, then surely it's about collapsible spaces. But this entry talks about spaces and collapsible spaces, and I couldn't be sure whether the commission of collapsible in one of the references but not the other was just because it was "obvious" from context, or if it was meant to draw a contrast. Hence filing this bug. The presence of the word "another" gives a good hint, so I won't be too sad if we close this as wontfix, but I'd prefer minimizing the chances of misunderstanding.
fantasai commentedon Jan 15, 2019
I'd have to rewrite all the entries in that entire list. :/
[css-text-3] Add more mentions of “collapsible” for clarity. #3513