Better text for the issue about aligning elements and stretching

margins vertically (at the top of the 'vertical-align' section).

Author: bert-github

css3-layout/Overview.src.html

@@ -2283,15 +2283,15 @@ <h2>Rendering of grid elements</h2>
 <h3 id=vertical-alignment>Vertical alignment of the contents of slots</h3>
 
 <div class=issue>
-<p>Remove this section and refer to Elika's css3-align:
-'justify-content' and 'align-content'
+<p>Remove this section and refer to Elika's css3-align draft?
+'Vertical-align' is renamed to 'align-content' there. Which is
+probably easier if the slot has a vertical writing mode, but not if it
+has horizontal writing mode; and also makes grids inconsistent with
+tables.
 
-<!-- Make drafts of template and grid for Aug 2012 ftf -->
-</div>
-
-<div class=issue>
-<p>Add the effect of 'margin-{top,bottom}: auto', generalized from
-flexbox? (By reference to css3-box?)
+<p>Or use neither 'vertical-align' nor 'align-content' and instead
+rely only on elastic margins, similar to 'margin-{top,bottom}: auto'
+in flexbox? (Those margins would be defined in css3-box.)
 
 <p>Especially in paged material, it is very common for a column of
 text to be not just aligned or centered, but vertically “justified” to
@@ -2303,17 +2303,8 @@ <h3 id=vertical-alignment>Vertical alignment of the contents of slots</h3>
 <pre>margin-top: 1.2em + 1fill - 0.6em</pre>
 
 <p>(Which could mean: preferred width is 1.2em, may be increased
-without limit, may be decreased by no more than 0.6em.) To increase
-the padding instead of the margin, the 'flex' property from css3-flex
-might be useful:
-
-<pre>flex: 1</pre>
-
-<p>although that doesn't say at which side the padding is added and
-thus requires another property to align the content inside the box. A
-more direct way could be:
-
-<pre>padding-top: 0.5em + 1fill</pre>
+without limit, may be decreased by no more than 0.6em.) You could
+similarly make the padding elastic instead of the margin.
 </div>
 
 <p>For the purpose of this section we define the <dfn>A edge</dfn>