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[css-multicol-1] Update after i18n WG review
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css-multicol-1/Overview.bs

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All column boxes in a line have the same column width,
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and all column boxes in a line have the same column height.
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Note: In text set using a vertical writing mode,
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the block direction runs horizontally.
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In a vertical writing mode columns are laid out horizontally,
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and the direction of the flow of blocks may be right to left, or left to right.
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The [=column-width=] property therefore refers to the inline size of the column,
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and not the physical horizontal width.
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<div class="example">
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<figure>
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<img alt="The first image shows horizontal text with a LTR inline direction. The second shows vertical text with blocks flowing right to left. The third shows vertical text with blocks flowing left to right." src="images/writing-modes.svg">
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<figcaption>A diagram showing the different ways columns may be arranged due to writing mode.
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<br>From left to right: horizontal-tb, vertical-rl, vertical-lr.</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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Within each [=multicol line=] in the multi-column container,
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adjacent column boxes are separated by a <dfn noexport>column gap</dfn>,
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which may contain a <dfn noexport>column rule</dfn>.
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<li>Added the text, "The margins of two spanners separated only by an absolutely positioned item will collapse with each other,
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as absolutely positioned items do not create column boxes." <a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6265#issuecomment-839909999">Resolved 12 May 2021</a></li>
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<li>Adds an accessibility considerations section. <a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6283">Request from APA after review.</a></li>
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<li>Adds a note and example to make clear the manner in which columns are laid out in vertical writing modes. <a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6301">Request from i18n WG after review.</a></li>
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<h3 id="changes-from-20191015">Changes from the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/WD-css-multicol-1-20191015/">Working Draft (WD) of 15 October 2019</a></h3>

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