11<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
22<html lang="en">
3- <!-- $Id: text.src,v 2.6 1998-02-17 00:32:39 ijacobs Exp $ -->
3+ <!-- $Id: text.src,v 2.7 1998-02-19 00:49:27 ijacobs Exp $ -->
44<HEAD>
55<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
66<TITLE>Text</TITLE>
@@ -51,19 +51,13 @@ The following example causes a 3em text indent.
5151</PRE>
5252</div>
5353
54- <H2><a name="alignment-prop">Alignment</a> the <span
54+ <H2><a name="alignment-prop">Alignment: </a> the <span
5555class="propinst-text-align">'text-align'</span> property</H2>
5656
5757<!-- #include src=properties/text-align.srb -->
5858
59- <P> This property describes how a paragraph of text is aligned. More
60- precisely, it specifies how boxes in each <a
61- href="visuren.html#line-box">line box</a> of a block align with
62- respect to the line box. (Note that alignment is not with respect to
63- the <a href="visuren.html#viewport">viewport</a> but the current <a
64- href="visudet.html#containing-block">containing block</a>.)
65-
66- <P>Values have the following meanings:</P>
59+ <P>This property describes how a block of text is aligned. Values
60+ have the following meanings:</P>
6761
6862<dl>
6963<dt><strong>left</strong>, <strong>right</strong>,
@@ -78,6 +72,14 @@ This value <em>only</em> applies to <a href="tables.html">table</a>
7872columns.
7973</dl>
8074
75+ <P>A block of text is a stack of <a href="visuren.html#line-box">line
76+ boxes</a>. In all cases except for 'justify', this property specifies
77+ how the inline boxes within each line box align with respect to the line
78+ box's left and right sides; alignment is not with respect to the <a
79+ href="visuren.html#viewport">viewport</a>. In the case of 'justify',
80+ the UA may stretch the inline boxes in addition to adjusting their
81+ positions.
82+
8183<div class="example"><P>
8284In this example, note that since <span
8385class="propinst-text-align">'text-align'</span> inherits, all
@@ -361,18 +363,17 @@ an element's text. Values have the following meanings:</p>
361363</DL>
362364
363365<P> The actual transformation in each case is human language-
364- dependent. See <a rel="biblioentry" href="./refs.html#ref-RFC2070"
365- class="normref">[RFC2070]</a> for ways to find the language of an
366- element.
366+ dependent. See RFC 2070 ([[RFC2070]]) for ways to find the language of
367+ an element.
367368
368369<P><span class="index-inst" title="conformance"><a
369- href="conform.html#conformance">Conforming HTML user agents</a></span> may
370- consider the value of <span
370+ href="conform.html#conformance">Conforming HTML user agents</a></span>
371+ may consider the value of <span
371372class="propinst-text-transform">'text-transform'</span> to be 'none'
372373for characters that are not from the Latin-1 repertoire and for
373374elements in languages for which the transformation is different from
374- that specified by the case-conversion tables of <a rel="biblioentry"
375- href="./refs.html#ref-UNICODE" class="normref">[UNICODE]</a> .
375+ that specified by the case-conversion tables of ISO 10646
376+ ([[ISO10646]]) .
376377
377378<div class="example"><P>
378379In this example, all text in an H1 element is transformed to uppercase
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