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[css-inline-3] Draft up leading-trim. w3c#3240 
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are <a>fragmentation containers</a> generated by their <a>formatting context</a>
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and are not part of the CSS <a>box tree</a>.
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ISSUE: Many aspects of layout here depend on font metrics.
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While the relevant metrics exist in OpenType for Latin/Cyrillic/Greek and for CJK,
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they are missing for many other writing systems.
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For example, the visual top metric for Hebrew has no metric in the OpenType tables.
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For this module to work well for the world,
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we need fonts to provide the relevant metrics for all writing systems,
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and that means both that OpenType needs to allow such metrics
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and font designers need to provide accurate numbers.
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<h2 id="line-height">
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Line Heights and Baseline Alignment</h2>
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In the latter case, an individual inline could say "pay attention to me"
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or "don't pay attention to me".
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<h3 id="leading-trim-property">
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Leading Control: the 'leading-trim-over' and 'leading-trim-under' properties and 'leading-trim' shorthand</h3>
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ISSUE: This is a rought draft of a proposal,
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and is likely to change significantly
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as design critiques and use cases are registered.
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Values and property names may be added, dropped, and/or renamed,
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and the overall syntax or behavior may change.
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Do not implement (yet).
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The CSSWG particularly invites feedback on
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which font metrics need corresponding keyword values.
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To ensure consistent spacing in the basic case of running text,
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CSS line layout introduces leading both above and below
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the text content of each line.
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In addition, the ascend and descent font metrics themselves
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include extra space above and below the most common glyph sizes
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in order to accommodate occasional characters and diacritics
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which ascend or descend beyond the typical bounds.
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This prevents subsequent lines of text from overlapping each other.
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However, all this extra spacing interferes with visual alignment
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and with control over effective (visually-apparent) spacing.
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The 'leading-trim' properties allow controlling the spacing above and below
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the first and last lines of a block.
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It allows precise control over spacing;
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moreover, by relying on font metrics rather than hard-coded lengths,
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it allows content to be resized, rewrapped, and rendered in a variety of fonts
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while maintaining that spacing.
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<div class="example">
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<!-- Example from Weston Thayer in https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3240#issuecomment-432375650 -->
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A common problem is vertical centering.
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It's easy to vertically center the text container to an icon,
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but because the visual boundaries of Latin text
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are the cap height and the alphabetic baseline,
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rather than the ascent and descent,
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this often doesn't yield the intended visual effect.
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<figure>
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<img src="images/leading-trim-centering-fail.png"
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alt="Consider some Latin text placed to the right of an image,
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to be centered between its top and bottom.
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Measuring from the top of the image to the top of the text box yields 13px;
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likewise measuring from the bottom of the image to the bottom of the text box yelds 13px,
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theoretically perfectly centering the text.
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However, measuring from the top of the image to the cap-height yields 21px;
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and measuring from the bottom to the alphabetic baseline yields 19px,
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showing that visually the text is not actually centered.">
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<figcaption>
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Measuring to the top/bottom of the text may yield equal results,
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but measuring to the visual bounds shows that it is not visually centered.
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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To center the text visually,
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it's necessary to asume the cap height and alphabetic baseline
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as the top and bottom edges of the text,
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respectively.
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<figure>
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<img src="images/leading-trim-centering-goal.png"
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alt="If the text were visually centered,
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the distance between the top of the image and the cap height would be 20px,
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and the distance between the bottom of the image and the alphabetic baseline would be equally 20px."
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style="width: 50%">
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<figcaption>
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Measuring to the cap height / alphabetic baseline
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instead of the ascent / descent
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and equalizing those distances
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visually centers the text.
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</figure>
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By using 'leading-trim' to strip out the spacing above the cap height
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and below the alphabetic baseline,
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centering the box actually centers the text;
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and does so reliably, regardless of what font is used to render it.
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<figure>
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<img src="images/leading-trim-centering-variants.gif"
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alt="">
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<figcaption>
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Even though different fonts have different cap heights,
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by using the font's metric rather than a magic number,
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the layout intention is met even as the font is changed.
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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</div>
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<pre class="propdef">
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Name: leading-trim-over
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Value: normal | text | cap | ex | ideographic | ideographic-ink
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Initial: normal
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Applies to: block containers
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Inherited: no
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Percentages: N/A
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Computed value: the specified keyword
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</pre>
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The 'leading-trim-over' property trims
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the <a>line-over</a> side of the first line box in the block container
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to better match the box’s content edge to its text content.
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The property affects only the <a>first formatted line</a> of the block container;
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if there is no such line, it has no effect.
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Values have the following meanings:
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<dl dfn-for="leading-trim-over, leading-trim" dfn-type=value>
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<dt><dfn>normal</dfn>
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<dd>
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Half-leading is applied over the first line,
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just as for every other line.
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<dt><dfn>text</dfn>
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<dd>
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Half-leading is not applied over the first line;
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the top of the line box is set to
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the text-top metric
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of the root inline box.
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<dt><dfn>cap</dfn>
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<dd>
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Half-leading is not applied over the first line;
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the top of the line box is set to
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the cap-height metric
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of the root inline box.
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<dt><dfn>ex</dfn>
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<dd>
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Half-leading is not applied over the first line;
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the top of the line box is set to
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the ex-height metric
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of the root inline box.
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<dt><dfn>ideographic</dfn>
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<dd>
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Half-leading is not applied over the first line;
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the top of the line box is set to
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the ideographic top (<code>idtp</code>) metric
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of the root inline box.
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<dt><dfn>ideographic-ink</dfn>
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<dd>
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Half-leading is not applied over the first line;
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the top of the line box is set to
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the ideographic character face top (<code>icft</code>) metric
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of the root inline box.
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</dl>
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<pre class="propdef">
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Name: leading-trim-under
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Value: normal | text | alphabetic | ideographic | ideographic-ink
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Initial: normal
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Applies to: block containers
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Inherited: yes
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Percentages: N/A
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Computed value: the specified keyword
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</pre>
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The 'leading-trim-over' property trims
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the <a>line-over</a> side of the first line box in the block container
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to better match the box’s content edge to its text content.
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The property affects only the <a>first formatted line</a> of the block container;
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if there is no such line, it has no effect.
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Values have the following meanings:
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<dl dfn-for="leading-trim-under" dfn-type=value>
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<dt><dfn>normal</dfn>
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<dd>
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Half-leading is applied over the first line,
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just as for every other line.
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<dt><dfn>text</dfn>
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<dd>
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Half-leading is not applied over the first line;
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the top of the line box is set to
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the text-top metric
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of the root inline box.
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<dt><dfn>alphabetic</dfn>
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Half-leading is not applied over the first line;
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the top of the line box is set to
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the alphabetic baseline metric
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of the root inline box.
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<dt><dfn>ideographic</dfn>
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<dd>
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Half-leading is not applied over the first line;
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the top of the line box is set to
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the ideographic bottom (<code>ideo</code>) metric
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of the root inline box.
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<dt><dfn>ideographic-ink</dfn>
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Half-leading is not applied over the first line;
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the top of the line box is set to
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the ideographic character face top (<code>icfb</code>) metric
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of the root inline box.
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</dl>
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<pre class="propdef">
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Name: leading-trim
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Value: normal | text | cap | ex | ideographic | ideographic-ink
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Initial: normal
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Applies to: block containers
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Inherited: no
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Percentages: N/A
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Computed value: the specified keyword
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</pre>
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This property is a <a>shorthand</a> of 'leading-trim-over' and 'leading-trim-under'.
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If ''leading-trim/cap'' or ''leading-trim/ex'' is specified,
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'leading-trim-over' is set to that value
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and 'leading-trim-under' is set to ''leading-trim-under/alphabetic'';
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otherwise both <a>longhands</a> are set to the specified keyword.
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<h2 id="inline-box-dimensions">
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Drawing Inline Boxes</h2>
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Stephen Deach,
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Sylvain Galineau,
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David Hyatt,
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Myles Maxfield,
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Shinyu Murakami,
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Jan Nicklas,
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Tess O’Connor,
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Sujal Parikh,
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Florian Rivoal,
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Alan Stearns,
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Weston Thayer,
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Bobby Tung,
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Chris Wilson,
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Grzegorz Zygmunt.

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