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The definition of the various values of the white-space property in
section 3 does not go into much detail about exactly how they work,
and just provides a high level intro to what they do. The details are
provided in section 4, and in particular 4.1 and 4.3 (so called
“phase 1” and “phase 2” of white space processing).

While this phase 2 has been updated (see #2500, #3879, or #4180)
to define that not only space characters, but also other space
separators hang / don't hang / wrap / don't wrap, etc, based on the
value of the white-space property, the high level definition of these
values was not updated to reflect that.

While this is not necessarily a bug, as it is already called out that
details are in section 4, apparent contradictions or omissions can be
confusing.

Therefore, in the part of these definitions that explicitly talked
about white space wrapping/hanging (or not), include other space
separators as well, as defined in 4.3.

The definition of the various values of the white-space property in
section 3 does not go into much detail about exactly how they work,
and just provides a high level intro to what they do. The details are
provided in section 4, and in particular 4.1 and 4.3 (so called
“phase 1” and “phase 2” of white space processing).

While this phase 2 has been updated (see
w3c#2500
w3c#3879
w3c#4180)
to define that not only space characters, but also other space
separators hang / don't hang / wrap / don't wrap, etc, based on the
value of the white-space property, the high level definition of these
values was not updated to reflect that.

While this is not necessarily a bug, as it is already called out that
details are in section 4, apparent contradictions or omissions can be
confusing.

Therefore, in the part of these definitions that explicitly talked
about white space wrapping/hanging (or not), include other space
separators as well, as defined in 4.3.
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frivoal commented Oct 15, 2019

ping @fantasai for review

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Need to fix a typo, both otherwise looks OK.

@fantasai fantasai merged commit 512715c into w3c:master Jan 23, 2020
@frivoal frivoal deleted the white-space-dfn-cleanup branch January 23, 2020 17:11
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