separate justification from alignment

[ansis]

The alignment properties control how the text is aligned relative to the anchor. Justification handles how text is aligned within each line.

Do the names look alright? thoughts on justification vs justify and alignment vs align?

[nickidlugash]

My vote is for text-justify, text-align, and text-vertical-align.

I prefer "justify" and "align" to "justification" and "alignment" because they are shorter and more consistent with css properties/Adobe CC naming systems. I also prefer using just text-align to mean horizontal align for the same reasons, but text-horizontal-align is fine, too.

[mourner]

👍 to Nicki's suggestions

[ansis]

thanks @nickidlugash

I switched alignment to align.

I left text-horizontal-align instead of changing it to text-align because because text-align in css and carto does what text-justify does here. Would renaming text-justify to text-align be better?

I also switched center to middle for both horizontal and vertical alignment.

[nickidlugash]

The parallels with other design terminology does get a bit confusing because justification is a property of text, while alignment is really a property of objects, including blocks of text. Adobe CC doesn't have a concept of "text alignment", only "object alignment", which can be applied to text frames. I don't particularly like css's use of "text-align" to mean "justify", but I agree that it could be confusing to use the same term to mean something else. text-horizontal-align sounds good.

I also switched center to middle for both horizontal and vertical alignment.

I personally prefer center, which is the terminology Adobe CC uses (but css uses "center" for horizontal, and "middle" for vertical).

[ansis]

Switched middle back to center

now we have:

• text-justify: center, left, right
• text-horizontal-align: center, left, right
• text-vertical-align: center, top, bottom

good to merge?

[edenh]

text-horizontal-align should probably be text-align