On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:48:25 +0700, Michel Fortin
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1. Some "border-character" property, which would work mostly like CSS
3's border-image, but would put a stretchable character in the border.
The browser would be in charge of stretching. "border-image" with SVG
could be an adequate substitute for some characters, but I'm not sure it
would be so great with braces or arrows.
border-character isn't going to work. When scaled non-proportionally,
characters get ugly, with horizontal elements getting thick. The { and }
characters will suffer the most from this. TeX applies custom logic to
stretchy braces, and I think we shouldn't try to make ANY character
stretch automatically.
4. In the same reasoning, it would be great if there was a way adjacent
elements could share the same horizontal space, like <sup> and <sub>
when they are next to each other:
C<sup>1</sup><sub>2</sub>
I'm thinking of something which I would call "inline-float" (for
the lack of a better name), which would make two or more elements
with that property collapse into the same horizontal space when
they are following directly each other and are not overlapping
vertically.
1. They would also need to be aligned either to left or right (to
accomodate prefixes to chemical symbols).
2. This isn't going to work correctly when the subscripts and superscripts
are complex (e.g. fractions). In your proposal, they'll fail to stack and
will go one after another. What should happen is that they should still be
one above another, just occupying more vertical space.
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