@react-x11/components 0.8.0 → 0.10.0

package/src/html/layout/inline.ts

@@ -25,21 +25,40 @@
 // and hands them back on the laid-out runs, so the decoration a `<span>`
 // carries reaches paint on the same object the glyphs did — which is exactly
 // the trick `<richtext>` is built on, and it is why paint reuses richtext's
-// decoration pass unchanged instead of reimplementing it.
-import type { Element } from 'domhandler';
+// decoration pass unchanged instead of reimplementing it. What a run does
+// *not* carry is its element: a layout outlives the parse it was made for
+// (`TextLayoutCache`), so the element under a run is found from its text's
+// place in the document (`LineText.spans`) instead.
 
-import { codeUnitOffsets } from '../../internal/text.js';
+import { codePointAtOffset, codeUnitOffsets } from '../../internal/text.js';
 import type { TextRun } from '../../richtext/index.js';
 import type { ComputedStyle } from '../css/style.js';
-import { inkColor, isTransparent } from '../css/values.js';
+import {
+  CONTAIN_LAYOUT,
+  INLINE_BEFORE_ABSOLUTE,
+  scrolls,
+} from '../css/style.js';
+import { inkColor, isTransparent, resolve } from '../css/values.js';
+import {
+  BOX_RAISES,
+  LINE_BOX_RAISES,
+  isOffset,
+  SHADOWED_TEXT,
+  SHIFTED_LINES,
+  TEXT_RAISES,
+} from './boxes.js';
 import type {
   AtomicPlacement,
   Box,
+  EdgePlacement,
+  FirstLineStyler,
+  InlineDecoration,
   LineBox,
   LineText,
   TextLayoutLike,
 } from './boxes.js';
 import type { FloatContext } from './floats.js';
+import { tableGrid } from './grid.js';
 
 /** The slice of ntk's font manager this needs. Structural, as everywhere. */
 export interface FontsLike {
@@ -52,6 +71,15 @@ export interface FontsLike {
       align?: string;
       direction?: string;
       maxLines?: number;
+      /** What a `maxLines` cut looks like: an ellipsis, or nothing. */
+      overflow?: 'clip' | 'ellipsis';
+      /** A word too long for its line kept whole, past the line's end, or
+       *  cut inside itself — ntk's option, which an engine without it
+       *  leaves at cutting. */
+      overflowWrap?: 'normal' | 'break-word';
+      /** Whether soft wraps are made at all: false is a line to each
+       *  forced break, cut at `maxWidth` where `overflow` says so. ntk's. */
+      wrap?: boolean;
     },
   ): TextLayoutLike;
   match(
@@ -78,6 +106,128 @@ export interface FontsLike {
  */
 const LAYOUT_RUNS = new WeakMap<TextLayoutLike, TextRun[] | number[]>();
 
+const WIDEST_WORD = new WeakMap<TextLayoutLike, number>();
+
+/**
+ * The widest word between spaces in a layout's text: its runs laid out
+ * again with every space a line break, at no width limit. Where a text's
+ * only breaks are spaces that is its min-content width, and where it has
+ * others — a hyphen, a slash — more: an upper bound of it either way. The
+ * other way to ask, a layout of no width, has ntk search every word for a
+ * place to cut it, since none fits, which costs fifteen layouts of this
+ * one. Infinity where the runs are no longer kept.
+ */
+export function widestWord(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  layout: TextLayoutLike,
+  measured = true,
+): number {
+  if (!measured) return longestWord(layout);
+  let widest = WIDEST_WORD.get(layout);
+  if (widest !== undefined) return widest;
+  const held = LAYOUT_RUNS.get(layout);
+  if (!held || (held.length > 0 && typeof held[0] === 'number')) {
+    return Infinity;
+  }
+  const words = fonts.layout(
+    (held as TextRun[]).map((run) => ({
+      ...run,
+      text: run.text.replace(/[ \t\u200b]+/g, '\n'),
+    })),
+    {},
+    {},
+  );
+  widest = 0;
+  for (const line of words.lines) widest = Math.max(widest, line.width);
+  WIDEST_WORD.set(layout, widest);
+  return widest;
+}
+
+const SPACE_BREAKS = new WeakMap<TextLayoutLike, boolean>();
+
+/**
+ * Whether a layout's text breaks only at its spaces: letters and digits of
+ * the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts, and the punctuation that UAX #14
+ * never breaks after between two letters — no hyphen, slash, `!`, `?`,
+ * `|`, `}`, soft hyphen or ellipsis, and nothing of a script that breaks
+ * between its letters or by dictionary. Where it does, its widest word
+ * (`widestWord`) is exactly its min-content width.
+ */
+export function spaceBreaksOnly(layout: TextLayoutLike): boolean {
+  let only = SPACE_BREAKS.get(layout);
+  if (only !== undefined) return only;
+  const held = LAYOUT_RUNS.get(layout);
+  only = !!held && (held.length === 0 || typeof held[0] !== 'number');
+  if (only) {
+    outer: for (const run of held as TextRun[]) {
+      const text = run.text;
+      for (let i = 0; i < text.length; i += 1) {
+        if (!breaksOnlyAtSpace(text.charCodeAt(i))) {
+          only = false;
+          break outer;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  SPACE_BREAKS.set(layout, only);
+  return only;
+}
+
+function breaksOnlyAtSpace(c: number): boolean {
+  if (c < 0x80) {
+    // `-` `/` `!` `?` `|` `}`: a break may follow each
+    return (
+      c >= 0x20 &&
+      c !== 0x2d &&
+      c !== 0x2f &&
+      c !== 0x21 &&
+      c !== 0x3f &&
+      c !== 0x7c &&
+      c !== 0x7d &&
+      c !== 0x7f
+    );
+  }
+  // Latin-1 but the soft hyphen and the acute accent, which a break may
+  // precede; Latin Extended, the combining marks, Greek and Cyrillic
+  if (c >= 0xa0 && c < 0x530) return c !== 0xad && c !== 0xb4 && c !== 0x2c8;
+  // the curly quotes
+  return c >= 0x2018 && c <= 0x201f;
+}
+
+const LONGEST_WORD = new WeakMap<TextLayoutLike, number>();
+
+/**
+ * `widestWord` estimated from the text alone, with no layout: each word's
+ * characters at half again their size, which no glyph a document sets
+ * words in is wider than, and their letter spacing. What is under it
+ * needs no measuring, and most words are.
+ */
+function longestWord(layout: TextLayoutLike): number {
+  let longest = LONGEST_WORD.get(layout);
+  if (longest !== undefined) return longest;
+  const held = LAYOUT_RUNS.get(layout);
+  if (!held || (held.length > 0 && typeof held[0] === 'number')) {
+    return Infinity;
+  }
+  longest = 0;
+  let word = 0;
+  for (const run of held as TextRun[]) {
+    const per = (run.size ?? 16) * 1.5 + Math.max(0, run.letterSpacing ?? 0);
+    const text = run.text;
+    for (let i = 0; i < text.length; i += 1) {
+      const c = text.charCodeAt(i);
+      if (c === 0x20 || c === 0x09 || c === 0x0a || c === 0x200b) word = 0;
+      else if (c < 0xdc00 || c > 0xdfff) {
+        // a surrogate pair is one character
+        word += per;
+        if (word > longest) longest = word;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  LONGEST_WORD.set(layout, longest);
+  return longest;
+}
+
 /** Code-unit → code-point offsets for a layout's text, built once. */
 export function layoutOffsets(layout: TextLayoutLike): number[] {
   const held = LAYOUT_RUNS.get(layout);
@@ -92,16 +242,44 @@ export function layoutOffsets(layout: TextLayoutLike): number[] {
 
 const EMPTY_OFFSETS: number[] = [0];
 
-/** One thing in the inline stream. */
+/** One thing in the inline stream. An `edge` is an inline box's own margin,
+ *  border and padding on one side — before its first fragment, or after its
+ *  last (CSS 2.1 8.x, 10.3.1) — which takes room on the line and draws no
+ *  glyph. */
 type Item =
-  | { kind: 'text'; run: TextRun; box: Box; length: number }
-  | { kind: 'atomic'; box: Box };
+  | {
+      kind: 'text';
+      run: TextRun;
+      box: Box;
+      length: number;
+      /** Where the run's text starts in the document index: its box's
+       *  start, or further in, where the box's text is split. */
+      start: number;
+      /** A bidi control `unicode-bidi` stands for (`bidiControls`): laid
+       *  out, and no text of the document's. */
+      control?: true;
+    }
+  | { kind: 'atomic'; box: Box }
+  | { kind: 'edge'; box: Box; side: 'start' | 'end'; width: number }
+  /** A float, where it is in the content: placed when the lines reach it
+   *  (`InlineOptions.floatBoxes`). */
+  | { kind: 'float'; box: Box };
+
+function isText(item: Item): item is Extract<Item, { kind: 'text' }> {
+  return item.kind === 'text';
+}
 
 export interface InlineResult {
   lines: LineBox[];
   height: number;
   /** The widest line — what a shrink-to-fit width takes. */
   width: number;
+  /** The widest row of floats the paragraph placed beside none of its
+   *  lines — all of them, where it has nothing else — side by side. */
+  floatRow?: number;
+  /** Whether a clamp cut the text short: there was more of it than the
+   *  lines it left (`InlineOptions.clamp`). */
+  cut?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface InlineOptions {
@@ -113,6 +291,36 @@ export interface InlineOptions {
   floats: FloatContext | null;
   /** The block's content-box left edge, in the float context's space. */
   originX: number;
+  /** A `::first-line` colour, for the text before `end` — the first line's
+   *  end, in the document index — whose colour is `from`, the block's. */
+  firstLine?: { color: string; from: string; end: number };
+  /**
+   * A `::first-line` that sets the first line's fonts, which move where it
+   * breaks: its style, and each box's style on the line (`FirstLineStyler`)
+   * — which the line is found in, a piece at a time (CSS 2.1 5.12.1).
+   */
+  firstLineStyle?: { style: ComputedStyle; styler: FirstLineStyler };
+  /** Whether any box in the document paints its background through its
+   *  text (`BoxTree.clipText`). */
+  clipText?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * The lines a line-clamp container leaves the block (CSS Overflow 4,
+   * 5.3.1): no more than `lines` of them show, and the last of a cut ends
+   * in an ellipsis where `ellipsis` says — as it does where they are all
+   * the block has and more of the container `follows` them, the clamp
+   * point just after them (4.2).
+   */
+  clamp?: { lines: number; ellipsis: boolean; follows: boolean };
+  /**
+   * The floats in the content, placed as the lines reach them: `size` lays
+   * one out and answers its outer width, `place` puts it at a height in the
+   * float context's space. Absent, the floats are not the lines' to place —
+   * they were, by an earlier pass over the same lines.
+   */
+  floatBoxes?: {
+    size(box: Box): number;
+    place(box: Box, y: number): void;
+  };
 }
 
 /**
@@ -120,12 +328,153 @@ export interface InlineOptions {
  * relative to the containing block's content box; the caller translates.
  */
 export function layoutInline(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
-  const fonts = options.fonts;
+  const result = layoutLines(block, options);
+  const clamp = options.clamp?.lines;
+  // A clamped block shows its first lines and is as tall as they are. The
+  // one-layout paths below had the engine cut them, with its ellipsis; a
+  // block laid out a line at a time — an image on a line, a float beside
+  // it — is cut here, and ends where its last line does, with none.
+  if (clamp !== undefined && result.lines.length > clamp) {
+    const lines = result.lines.slice(0, clamp);
+    const last = lines[clamp - 1];
+    let widest = 0;
+    for (const line of lines) widest = Math.max(widest, line.width);
+    return {
+      lines,
+      height: last ? last.y + last.height : 0,
+      width: widest,
+      cut: true,
+    };
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The cut a block's text is laid out with, as the engine takes it: the
+ * lines a line-clamp container leaves it, or the one line of a
+ * `white-space: nowrap` block
+ * that clips with `text-overflow: ellipsis` — Tailwind's `truncate`, cut at
+ * the box's width with an ellipsis. That line is laid out unwrapped and
+ * cut where the box ends, inside a word if need be, as a browser cuts it,
+ * by an engine that reads `wrap` (ntk from 8.13.0); one that does not
+ * wraps it first and ends it after the word that fits.
+ */
+/** A layout cut at a number of lines, with an ellipsis or with none. */
+interface Cut {
+  maxLines: number;
+  overflow: 'clip' | 'ellipsis';
+  wrap?: false;
+}
+
+function cutOf(
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+  clamp: InlineOptions['clamp'],
+): Cut | null {
+  // the ellipsis a clamp ends in is placed apart (`ellipsized`)
+  if (clamp) return { maxLines: clamp.lines, overflow: 'clip' };
+  if (
+    style.textOverflow === 'ellipsis' &&
+    !wraps(style) &&
+    style.overflowX !== 'visible'
+  ) {
+    return { maxLines: 1, overflow: 'ellipsis', wrap: false };
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+function layoutLines(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
   const items: Item[] = [];
-  collect(block, items);
-  if (!items.length || !fonts) return EMPTY;
+  const statics: StaticMark[] = [];
+  const floatCount = collect(
+    block,
+    items,
+    options.width,
+    options.fonts,
+    block.style,
+    !!options.floatBoxes,
+    statics,
+  );
+  const result = linesOf(block, options, items, floatCount);
+  // whichever way the lines were made, one pass over them
+  if (statics.length) {
+    staticPositions(statics, items, result.lines, block, options);
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+/** The lines of a block's inline content, gathered into `items`. */
+function linesOf(
+  block: Box,
+  options: InlineOptions,
+  items: Item[],
+  floatCount: number,
+): InlineResult {
+  let fonts = options.fonts;
+  const placing = options.floatBoxes;
+  if (items.length === floatCount || !fonts) {
+    // no line to wait for: the floats go at the top
+    const placed: Box[] = [];
+    for (const item of items) {
+      if (item.kind === 'float') {
+        placing!.size(item.box);
+        placing!.place(item.box, options.startY);
+        placed.push(item.box);
+      }
+    }
+    if (!placed.length) return EMPTY;
+    return { ...EMPTY, floatRow: besideLines([], placed, options.startY) };
+  }
+  // text a box's background shows through (`background-clip: text`): its
+  // layouts are made through a recorder, so paint can lay the same text out
+  // again with no ink of its own and fill it with that background
+  if (options.clipText && clipsText(block, items)) {
+    CLIPPED_TEXT.add(block);
+    fonts = recording(fonts);
+  }
+  if (wraps(block.style)) holdNoWrap(items, block);
+  // one walk for what few paragraphs have: text that casts a shadow, and a
+  // tab, which only a `white-space` that keeps it leaves — so no text is
+  // searched for one where it cannot be
+  let tabbed = false;
+  let shadowed = false;
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (item.kind !== 'text' || item.control) continue;
+    const style = item.box.style;
+    if (style.textShadow) shadowed = true;
+    if (
+      !tabbed &&
+      (style.whiteSpace === 'pre' || style.whiteSpace === 'pre-wrap') &&
+      item.run.text.includes('\t')
+    ) {
+      tabbed = true;
+    }
+  }
+  if (shadowed) SHADOWED_TEXT.add(block);
+  if (tabbed) {
+    setTabs(items, fonts, block.style, blockIndent(block, options.width));
+  }
+  // an override on the block is one on all of its inline content (CSS 2.1
+  // 9.10); its embedding or isolation is the paragraph's own direction
+  const own =
+    block.style.unicodeBidi === 'bidi-override' ||
+    block.style.unicodeBidi === 'isolate-override'
+      ? bidiControls(block.style, true)
+      : null;
+  if (own) {
+    const first = items.find(isText);
+    let last: Extract<Item, { kind: 'text' }> | undefined;
+    for (const item of items) if (item.kind === 'text') last = item;
+    if (first && last) {
+      const opening: Item[] = [];
+      pushControls(opening, own[0], block, first.start);
+      items.unshift(...opening);
+      pushControls(items, own[1], block, last.start + last.length);
+    }
+  }
+  if (options.firstLine) firstLineColour(items, options.firstLine);
 
   const style = block.style;
+  const wrapWords = overflowWrapOf(style, items);
   const base = {
     family: style.fontFamily,
     size: style.fontSize,
@@ -134,16 +483,89 @@ export function layoutInline(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
     color: style.color,
   };
   const lineHeightMul = lineHeightMultiplier(fonts, style);
-  const align = alignFor(style);
-  const indent = indentOf(style, options.width);
+  // The lines the end of the text or a forced break ends take
+  // `text-align-last` (CSS Text 3, 7.2), and a text that does not wrap is
+  // all such lines. Where they are aligned otherwise than the rest, and
+  // neither is justified — which fills a line whatever its alignment — the
+  // lines are made one at a time, each aligned its own way.
+  const lastAlign = lastAlignOf(style);
+  const align = engineAlign(wraps(style) ? style.textAlign : lastAlign);
+  const rtl = style.direction === 'rtl';
+  const alignedApart =
+    wraps(style) &&
+    style.textAlign !== 'justify' &&
+    lastAlign !== 'justify' &&
+    alignShift(style.textAlign, rtl) !== alignShift(lastAlign, rtl);
+  const indent = blockIndent(block, options.width);
+
+  let hasAtomics = false;
+  let hasEdges = false;
+  let hasOffset = false;
+  let raised = false;
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (item.kind === 'atomic') hasAtomics = true;
+    else if (item.kind === 'text') {
+      // text in an inline box with a line height of its own, which an
+      // inline box of no edges has as much as one with them
+      if (!raised && fonts && inBoxOwningLeading(fonts, block, item.box)) {
+        hasOffset = true;
+        raised = true;
+      }
+    } else if (item.kind === 'edge') {
+      hasEdges = true;
+      if (
+        item.box.style.verticalAlign !== 'baseline' ||
+        ownsLeading(fonts, block.style, item.box.style) ||
+        tallerStrut(fonts, block.style, item.box)
+      ) {
+        hasOffset = true;
+        raised = true;
+      } else if (!hasOffset && isOffset(item.box.style)) hasOffset = true;
+    }
+  }
+  // a float in the content is placed on the line it is on, which only the
+  // line-at-a-time loop knows, as it does whatever floats are beside it
+  const floated =
+    floatCount > 0 ||
+    (options.floats?.intersects(options.startY, Infinity) ?? false);
+  // An inline box's edges take room on their lines. Where nothing else on
+  // the lines has to be placed a piece at a time, they go into the one
+  // layout as spacers (`spacerRun`) — which only holds where no bidi
+  // reordering can move one off the side of its box it belongs to, and no
+  // box between edges is moved afterwards, which needs its text apart.
+  const spaced =
+    hasEdges && !hasAtomics && !hasOffset && spacersHold(style, items);
+  // a first line in fonts of its own is found a piece at a time, in them
+  const restyled = options.firstLineStyle !== undefined;
 
-  const hasAtomics = items.some((i) => i.kind === 'atomic');
-  const floated = options.floats?.intersects(options.startY, Infinity) ?? false;
+  // Inline boxes' edges as spacers in one layout, where the engine left
+  // every edge on the line of the content it belongs to (`layoutSpaced`);
+  // the lines a piece at a time, below, where it did not.
+  if (spaced && !floated && !indent && !alignedApart && !restyled) {
+    const laid = layoutSpaced(
+      items,
+      base,
+      style,
+      options.width,
+      lineHeightMul,
+      align,
+      fonts,
+    );
+    if (laid) return laid;
+  }
 
   // The text-only, float-free, unindented case: one call, every line — or
   // one call per *chunk*, when the text is long and carries hard breaks.
-  if (!hasAtomics && !floated && !indent) {
-    // `hasAtomics` is false, so every item is text; the cast is that fact.
+  if (
+    !hasAtomics &&
+    !hasEdges &&
+    !raised &&
+    !floated &&
+    !indent &&
+    !alignedApart &&
+    !restyled
+  ) {
+    // no atomics and no edges, so everything is text
     const textItems = items as Extract<Item, { kind: 'text' }>[];
     let total = 0;
     let hasNewline = false;
@@ -152,7 +574,28 @@ export function layoutInline(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
       if (!hasNewline && item.run.text.includes('\n')) hasNewline = true;
     }
     if (!total) return EMPTY;
-    if (total > CHUNK_TRIGGER_CHARS && hasNewline) {
+    // `text-overflow` cuts every line that overflows, and a layout can cut
+    // only its last: one that a forced break ends is laid out apart, a hard
+    // line at a time, or the lines after the first were lost. A clamp is
+    // the paragraph's, and stays one layout.
+    const clamp = options.clamp;
+    let cut = cutOf(style, clamp);
+    const perLine = cut !== null && !clamp && hasNewline;
+    // an embedding cannot be cut into chunks
+    if (perLine && !hasControls(items)) {
+      return layoutChunked(
+        textItems,
+        base,
+        style,
+        options.width,
+        lineHeightMul,
+        align,
+        fonts,
+        { chars: Infinity, hardLines: 1, cut },
+      );
+    }
+    if (perLine) cut = null;
+    if (total > CHUNK_TRIGGER_CHARS && hasNewline && !hasControls(items)) {
       return layoutChunked(
         textItems,
         base,
@@ -163,22 +606,108 @@ export function layoutInline(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
         fonts,
       );
     }
-    const runs: TextRun[] = [];
-    const spans = new SpanMap();
+    let runs: TextRun[] = [];
+    let spans = new SpanMap();
     for (const item of textItems) {
-      spans.add(item.box.textStart, item.run.text.length);
+      spans.add(
+        item.start,
+        item.run.text.length,
+        item.control ? null : item.box,
+      );
       runs.push(item.run);
     }
-    const layout = fonts.layout(runs, base, {
-      maxWidth: wraps(style) ? options.width : undefined,
+    // justified lines fill their width, so where all but the last are,
+    // the layout is aligned as those are
+    const justifies = wraps(style) && style.textJustify !== 'none';
+    const justifyRest = style.textAlign === 'justify' && justifies;
+    const justifyLast = lastAlign === 'justify' && justifies;
+    const layoutOptions = {
+      maxWidth: wraps(style) || cut ? options.width : undefined,
       lineHeight: lineHeightMul,
-      align,
+      align: justifyRest && !justifyLast ? engineAlign(lastAlign) : align,
       direction: style.direction,
-    });
+      overflowWrap: cutWrap(style, cut, wrapWords),
+      ...cut,
+    };
+    let layout = fonts.layout(runs, base, layoutOptions);
     LAYOUT_RUNS.set(layout, runs);
+    // A clamp that cut the text short says so, for the clamp point after
+    // it, and its last line ends in an ellipsis — as it does where the
+    // clamp point falls just after the lines, more of the container after
+    // them (CSS Overflow 4, 4.2).
+    let clampCut = false;
+    if (clamp) {
+      const shown = layout.lines.length;
+      clampCut =
+        shown > 0 &&
+        shown >= clamp.lines &&
+        (layout.truncated ?? inkBeyond(runs, layout.lines[shown - 1].end));
+      if (
+        clamp.ellipsis &&
+        shown > 0 &&
+        shown === clamp.lines &&
+        (clampCut || clamp.follows)
+      ) {
+        const ended = ellipsized(
+          fonts,
+          textItems,
+          runs,
+          base,
+          layoutOptions,
+          layout,
+          options.width,
+          style,
+        );
+        layout = ended.layout;
+        runs = ended.runs;
+        spans = ended.spans;
+        LAYOUT_RUNS.set(layout, runs);
+      }
+    }
+    // `text-wrap: balance`: the lines broken at the narrowest width that
+    // keeps as many of them, and then set in the whole width
+    let balanced = false;
+    if (
+      style.textWrapStyle === 'balance' &&
+      layoutOptions.maxWidth !== undefined &&
+      !cut &&
+      style.textAlign !== 'justify' &&
+      layout.lines.length > 1 &&
+      layout.lines.length <= BALANCE_LINES
+    ) {
+      const width = layoutOptions.maxWidth;
+      const at = balancedWidth(fonts, runs, base, layoutOptions, width, layout);
+      if (at < width) {
+        layout = fonts.layout(runs, base, { ...layoutOptions, maxWidth: at });
+        LAYOUT_RUNS.set(layout, runs);
+        balanced = true;
+      }
+    }
+    layout = justifiedLayout(
+      fonts,
+      runs,
+      base,
+      layoutOptions,
+      layout,
+      options.width,
+      { rest: justifyRest, last: justifyLast },
+    ).layout;
     const lines: LineBox[] = [];
-    const widest = emitLayout(layout, spans, 0, 0, lines);
-    return { lines, height: layout.height, width: widest };
+    const widest = emitLayout(
+      layout,
+      spans,
+      0,
+      0,
+      lines,
+      layoutOptions.maxWidth === undefined
+        ? unwrappedPlacer(style, options.width, true)
+        : balanced
+          ? unwrappedPlacer(style, options.width, false)
+          : null,
+    );
+    return clampCut
+      ? { lines, height: layout.height, width: widest, cut: true }
+      : { lines, height: layout.height, width: widest };
   }
 
   // --- the general case: line at a time -------------------------------------
@@ -188,38 +717,236 @@ export function layoutInline(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
   let index = 0;
   let offset = 0;
   let open = openLine(indent);
+  /** Start edges waiting for the content they belong to: an inline box's
+   *  opening margin, border and padding go on the line its first content
+   *  goes on, so they are placed with it, never left at a line's end. */
+  let pending: Extract<Item, { kind: 'edge' }>[] = [];
+  let pendingWidth = 0;
+  const placePending = (left: number): void => {
+    if (pending.length) open.left = left;
+    for (const edge of pending) {
+      const placed: EdgePlacement = {
+        box: edge.box,
+        side: 'start',
+        x: left + open.x,
+        width: edge.width,
+      };
+      open.edges.push(placed);
+      open.order.push({ kind: 'edge', at: open.x, item: placed });
+      open.x += edge.width;
+    }
+    pending = [];
+    pendingWidth = 0;
+  };
+  /** Floats met on a line they did not fit beside: they go at the top of
+   *  the next line, as the line they were met on closes. */
+  let deferred: Box[] = [];
+  /** Every float placed, in order, for the lines they stand beside. */
+  const floatsPlaced: Box[] = [];
+  const placeDeferred = (): void => {
+    for (const box of deferred) {
+      options.floatBoxes!.place(box, options.startY + y);
+      floatsPlaced.push(box);
+    }
+    deferred = [];
+  };
 
-  const close = (): void => {
-    const line = finishLine(open, y);
+  const strut = fonts ? strutOf(fonts, style) : null;
+  // How tall a line is taken to be before it is made, for its room beside
+  // the floats: the paragraph's strut, a line of its text. An item taller
+  // asks over its own height, and the line made over its whole (`close`).
+  // A 1.4em guess put a line of `line-height: 0` below floats it fitted
+  // beside.
+  const guess = strut ? strut.ascent + strut.descent : style.fontSize * 1.4;
+  const lifts = raised && fonts ? new Lifts(fonts, block.style) : null;
+  const restShift = alignShift(style.textAlign, rtl);
+  const lastShift = alignShift(lastAlign, rtl);
+  // a justified line fills its room, whatever made it a piece at a time
+  const justify = justification(style);
+  const lineJustify: LineJustify | null =
+    fonts && (justify.rest || justify.last)
+      ? {
+          fonts,
+          base,
+          options: {
+            lineHeight: lineHeightMul,
+            align: 'left',
+            direction: style.direction,
+            overflowWrap: wrapWords,
+          },
+        }
+      : null;
+  // The first line in its `::first-line` fonts, until a line is closed
+  const lineOne = options.firstLineStyle
+    ? firstLineSetting(
+        block,
+        items,
+        options.firstLineStyle,
+        fonts,
+        strut,
+        lineJustify,
+      )
+    : null;
+  /** Close the open line; `last` where the text or a forced break ends it,
+   *  which `text-align-last` aligns. */
+  const close = (last = false): void => {
+    const onFirst = lineOne !== null && !lines.length;
+    const line = finishLine(
+      open,
+      y,
+      // the room beside the floats over the whole line box, which an
+      // inline-block can make taller than its text (CSS 2.1 9.5)
+      (height) => bandAt(options, y, Math.max(height, guess)),
+      last || !wraps(style) ? lastShift : restShift,
+      rtl,
+      onFirst ? lineOne.strut : strut,
+      onFirst ? lineOne.lifts : lifts,
+      (last || !wraps(style) ? justify.last : justify.rest)
+        ? onFirst
+          ? lineOne.justify
+          : lineJustify
+        : null,
+    );
     if (!line) {
       open = openLine(0);
+      placeDeferred();
       return;
     }
     lines.push(line);
     widest = Math.max(widest, line.width);
     y += line.height;
     open = openLine(0);
+    placeDeferred();
   };
 
   while (index < items.length) {
-    const band = bandAt(options, y, style.fontSize * 1.4);
+    const band = bandAt(options, y, guess);
     const available = band.right - band.left;
     const item = items[index];
+    const onFirst = lineOne !== null && !lines.length;
+    const lineItems = onFirst ? lineOne.items : items;
+    const lineBase = onFirst ? lineOne.base : base;
+
+    if (item.kind === 'float') {
+      // No higher than the top of the line it is met on (CSS 2.1 9.5.1):
+      // at that top where it fits beside what the line holds already, and
+      // what the line holds moves over for it; under the line where it
+      // does not, with the rest of the line's content still on the line.
+      // Where the line cannot break at the float, what follows it up to
+      // where it can is on the line too, and has to fit beside it as well,
+      // as browsers place one: `nowrap` text it is in the middle of runs on
+      // past it otherwise, under it.
+      const outer = options.floatBoxes!.size(item.box);
+      // and after a float that waits for the next line, since none goes
+      // higher than one before it (9.5.1, rule 5)
+      let fits =
+        !deferred.length &&
+        (isEmpty(open) || open.x + pendingWidth + outer <= available);
+      if (fits && !isEmpty(open) && !breaksAtEnd(open, style)) {
+        const after = unbreakableAfter(
+          lineItems,
+          index + 1,
+          style,
+          fonts!,
+          lineBase,
+        );
+        fits = open.x + pendingWidth + after + outer <= available;
+      }
+      if (fits) {
+        options.floatBoxes!.place(item.box, options.startY + y);
+        floatsPlaced.push(item.box);
+        const left = bandAt(options, y, guess).left;
+        if (!isEmpty(open) && left !== open.left) {
+          const dx = left - open.left;
+          for (const text of open.texts) text.drawX += dx;
+          for (const placed of open.atomics) placed.x += dx;
+          for (const edge of open.edges) edge.x += dx;
+          open.left = left;
+        }
+      } else {
+        deferred.push(item.box);
+      }
+      index += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    if (item.kind === 'edge') {
+      if (item.side === 'start') {
+        pending.push(item);
+        pendingWidth += item.width;
+      } else {
+        // an end edge follows the content it closes onto its line; it may
+        // run past the line's end, as a trailing space does, rather than
+        // leave the content it closes
+        placePending(band.left);
+        const placed: EdgePlacement = {
+          box: item.box,
+          side: 'end',
+          x: band.left + open.x,
+          width: item.width,
+        };
+        open.edges.push(placed);
+        open.order.push({ kind: 'edge', at: open.x, item: placed });
+        open.x += item.width;
+        open.left = band.left;
+      }
+      index += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
 
     if (item.kind === 'atomic') {
       const box = item.box;
       const outer = box.width + box.marginLeft + box.marginRight;
-      if (open.x > 0 && open.x + outer > available) {
+      // An inline-block makes its line as tall as itself, and the line box
+      // must not run into a float over that height either (CSS 2.1 9.5):
+      // the room is what the floats leave beside all of it.
+      const tall = box.marginTop + box.height + box.marginBottom;
+      const lineTall = Math.max(guess, tall);
+      const room = tall > guess ? bandAt(options, y, tall) : band;
+      const roomWidth = room.right - room.left;
+      // a line with nothing on it keeps what comes first, indent or not:
+      // there is no break before it (a first line's `text-indent` is room
+      // taken, and no content)
+      if (open.x !== open.indent && open.x + pendingWidth + outer > roomWidth) {
         close();
         continue;
       }
-      open.atomics.push({ box, x: band.left + open.x + box.marginLeft, y: 0 });
+      // an inline-block wider than the room a float left goes below it,
+      // as a word does (below)
+      if (
+        isEmpty(open) &&
+        pendingWidth + outer > roomWidth &&
+        roomWidth < options.width
+      ) {
+        const below = belowFloats(options, y, lineTall);
+        if (below !== null) {
+          y = below;
+          continue;
+        }
+      }
+      placePending(room.left);
+      const placed: AtomicPlacement = {
+        box,
+        x: room.left + open.x + box.marginLeft,
+        y: 0,
+      };
+      const raise = atomicRaise(fonts, box, (box.parent ?? block).style);
+      if (raise) placed.raise = raise;
+      open.atomics.push(placed);
+      open.order.push({ kind: 'atomic', at: open.x, item: placed });
       open.x += outer;
+      open.hang = 0;
+      open.left = room.left;
       index += 1;
       continue;
     }
 
-    const segment = segmentFrom(items, index, offset);
+    const plain = segmentFrom(lineItems, index, offset);
+    // measured as it will be drawn where it is justified, its spaces
+    // spaced apart (`HAIR`) — the same text, so every offset holds
+    const segment = lineJustify
+      ? { ...plain, runs: spacedApart(plain.runs) }
+      : plain;
     // `segmentFrom` always passes at least the text item it started on, so
     // this advances even when the slice came out empty — which is what stops
     // a zero-length tail from spinning the loop.
@@ -234,19 +961,43 @@ export function layoutInline(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
     // one layout, every line of it. This is the exit that keeps the loop
     // below from being quadratic on an ordinary paragraph: it runs line by
     // line only while it has to.
+    // An inline box's edges of no width on the open line are no room it
+    // takes, and are still on it: an empty `<span>` with a tall line height
+    // before the text was left on a line of its own after it, and the
+    // text's line was as short as the paragraph's
+    // (and its lines all aligned alike, which the last is not where
+    // `text-align-last` sets it apart)
     const tailIsPlain =
+      !alignedApart &&
+      !onFirst &&
       segment.nextIndex >= items.length &&
       open.x === 0 &&
       !open.atomics.length &&
+      !open.edges.length &&
+      !pending.length &&
+      !deferred.length &&
       !(options.floats?.intersects(options.startY + y, Infinity) ?? false);
     if (tailIsPlain) {
-      const layout = fonts.layout(segment.runs, base, {
+      const tailOptions = {
         maxWidth: wraps(style) ? Math.max(1, available) : undefined,
         lineHeight: lineHeightMul,
         align,
         direction: style.direction,
-      });
+        overflowWrap: wrapWords,
+      };
+      let layout = fonts.layout(segment.runs, base, tailOptions);
       LAYOUT_RUNS.set(layout, segment.runs);
+      // the lines past the floats are justified as the lines beside them
+      // were (`finishLine`), in the room they have
+      layout = justifiedLayout(
+        fonts,
+        segment.runs,
+        base,
+        tailOptions,
+        layout,
+        Math.max(1, available),
+        justify,
+      ).layout;
       for (let i = 0; i < layout.lines.length; i += 1) {
         const natural = layout.lines[i];
         const text: LineText = {
@@ -257,13 +1008,15 @@ export function layoutInline(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
           textStart: segment.spans.documentAt(natural.start),
           textEnd: segment.spans.documentAt(natural.end),
           layoutStart: natural.start,
+          spans: segment.spans,
         };
+        segment.spans.giveGaps(text, natural.start, natural.end);
         lines.push({
           x: band.left + natural.x,
           y: y + natural.y,
           width: natural.width,
           height: natural.height,
-          baseline: natural.baseline,
+          baseline: natural.baseline - natural.y,
           texts: [text],
           textStart: text.textStart,
           textEnd: text.textEnd,
@@ -283,15 +1036,30 @@ export function layoutInline(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
     // re-cut (which is what an earlier shape paid, per line, beside every
     // float). ntk's shaping memo makes the successive cuts cheap; only the
     // line breaker re-runs.
-    const room = Math.max(1, available - open.x);
-    const fragment = fonts.layout(segment.runs, base, {
-      maxWidth: wraps(style) ? room : undefined,
-      lineHeight: lineHeightMul,
-      // A fragment that does not start at the line's left edge cannot be
-      // aligned by the text layout: the alignment belongs to the whole line,
-      // which only this loop can see.
-      align: open.x > 0 ? 'left' : align,
+    const room = Math.max(1, available - open.x - pendingWidth);
+    // A float met inside a word, or inside a `nowrap` element, is no place
+    // for the line to break: the text after it up to where it may break
+    // is on this line too, so this line keeps room for it — or breaks
+    // before the word it is tied to. It overran the line otherwise, the
+    // float having gone below, and the break it could have taken passed.
+    const tied =
+      wraps(style) &&
+      items[segment.nextIndex]?.kind === 'float' &&
+      !BREAKS_AFTER.test(segment.runs[segment.runs.length - 1].text)
+        ? unbreakableAfter(lineItems, segment.nextIndex, style, fonts, lineBase)
+        : 0;
+    const fragment = fonts.layout(segment.runs, lineBase, {
+      maxWidth: wraps(style) ? Math.max(1, room - tied) : undefined,
+      lineHeight: onFirst ? lineOne.lineHeight : lineHeightMul,
+      // Never aligned by the text layout: the alignment belongs to the whole
+      // line — its text, its atomics and its inline boxes' edges together —
+      // which only this loop can see, and `finishLine` shifts it all. Laid
+      // out aligned, the first fragment of a centred line was centred alone
+      // and whatever followed it on the line was placed as though it had
+      // not been, over it.
+      align: 'left',
       direction: style.direction,
+      overflowWrap: wrapWords,
       maxLines: 1,
     });
     LAYOUT_RUNS.set(fragment, segment.runs);
@@ -301,96 +1069,436 @@ export function layoutInline(block: Box, options: InlineOptions): InlineResult {
       offset = 0;
       continue;
     }
-    open.texts.push({
+    // Nothing fits beside the floats — the first word is wider than the
+    // room they leave, and was either run past it or cut inside itself to
+    // fit — so the line moves down to where a float ends, and tries again
+    // there (CSS 2.1 9.5). Only where a float took some of the line's width:
+    // past the floats the line has the whole of it, and a word wider still
+    // is `overflow-wrap`'s to break or to let run past.
+    if (
+      isEmpty(open) &&
+      available < options.width &&
+      tooNarrow(segment.runs, first.end, first.width, room)
+    ) {
+      const below = belowFloats(options, y, guess);
+      if (below !== null) {
+        y = below;
+        continue;
+      }
+    }
+    // An inline box's opening edge goes with the first word after it: where
+    // the word does not fit the room the edge leaves, both go to the next
+    // line, rather than the edge being left at this one's end. And a word
+    // that may start a line — after a space the line ends on, or after an
+    // atomic, which has a break after it (CSS Text 3, 5.1) — goes to the
+    // next line whole where it does not fit what is left of this one,
+    // rather than being broken inside itself to fit it: the text after an
+    // inline-block, or after a float it was cut at, was its first letter
+    // at the line's end and the rest on the next.
+    const startsLine =
+      wraps(style) &&
+      (open.hang > 0 || open.order[open.order.length - 1]?.kind === 'atomic');
+    if (
+      !isEmpty(open) &&
+      (pendingWidth > 0
+        ? tooNarrow(segment.runs, first.end, first.width, room)
+        : startsLine &&
+          // run past the room — its white space is no part of the width —
+          // or cut inside itself to fit it
+          (first.width > room + 0.5 ||
+            tooNarrow(segment.runs, first.end, first.width, room)))
+    ) {
+      close();
+      continue;
+    }
+    placePending(band.left);
+    const placed: LineText = {
       layout: fragment,
       layoutLine: 0,
-      // The layout's own `first.x` carries the alignment offset, so the
-      // origin is the band edge plus the cursor — subtracting `first.x`
-      // here would left-align a centred line. Mid-line continuations were
-      // laid out `left`, where `first.x` is zero and the two agree.
+      // laid out `left`, so the fragment starts at the cursor
       drawX: band.left + open.x,
       drawY: 0, // filled in by `finishLine`, which is where the top is known
       textStart: segment.spans.documentAt(first.start),
       textEnd: segment.spans.documentAt(first.end),
       layoutStart: first.start,
+      spans: segment.spans,
+    };
+    segment.spans.giveGaps(placed, first.start, first.end);
+    open.texts.push(placed);
+    open.order.push({
+      kind: 'text',
+      at: open.x,
+      item: placed,
+      reads: readingOf(segment.runs, first.start, first.end),
     });
     open.x += first.width;
     open.left = band.left;
+    open.hang = 0;
 
     // Did the segment wrap? ntk answers with `truncated`. A layout that does
     // not carry the flag — react-x11's Cocoa engine reports none — is asked
     // the same of its line ends instead: it wrapped if anything but
     // whitespace follows the first line. Read as "fitted", a cut fragment
     // advanced past the whole segment, and a paragraph beside a float lost
-    // every line after its first.
-    const wrapped = fragment.truncated ?? inkBeyond(segment.runs, first.end);
+    // every line after its first. And a line that ends at a `<br>` is over
+    // whether or not anything followed it in this segment: what comes next
+    // — an atomic, an element's edge — is the next line's.
+    const wrapped =
+      breakBefore(segment.runs, first.end) ||
+      (fragment.truncated ?? inkBeyond(segment.runs, first.end));
     if (!wrapped) {
       // It fitted: the cursor stays on this line for whatever comes next.
       //
-      // With one correction first. ntk strips a line's trailing whitespace —
-      // right at a real line end, wrong here, where the "line" is only a
-      // fragment and an atomic follows on the same one: `Name <input>` laid
-      // the space out to width zero and the control sat flush against the
-      // label (nbsp included; ntk's whitespace set has U+00A0 in it). The
-      // stripped advance is measured back and added to the cursor.
+      // With one correction first. A text engine strips a line's trailing
+      // whitespace — right at a real line end, wrong here, where the "line"
+      // is only a fragment and an atomic follows on the same one: `Name
+      // <input>` laid the space out to width zero and the control sat flush
+      // against the label. The stripped advance is measured back and added
+      // to the cursor: what the engine strips, and no more (`hungSpaces`).
       if (segment.nextIndex < items.length) {
+        const hung = hungSpaces(fonts, segment.runs[segment.runs.length - 1]);
         let trailing = '';
         for (let i = segment.runs.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
           const text = segment.runs[i].text;
-          const m = /[ \t\u00A0]+$/.exec(text);
+          const m = hung.exec(text);
           if (!m) break;
           trailing = m[0] + trailing;
           if (m[0].length < text.length) break;
         }
         if (trailing) {
-          open.x +=
+          // and noted: if what follows goes to the next line after all,
+          // these spaces end this one, where CSS removes them (16.6.1)
+          open.hang =
             spaceAdvance(fonts, segment.runs[segment.runs.length - 1]) *
             trailing.length;
+          open.x += open.hang;
         }
       }
       index = segment.nextIndex;
       offset = 0;
       continue;
     }
-    close();
+    close(breakBefore(segment.runs, first.end));
     const advanced = advance(items, index, offset, first.end);
     index = advanced.index;
     offset = advanced.offset;
   }
 
-  if (open.texts.length || open.atomics.length) close();
+  if (pending.length) placePending(bandAt(options, y, guess).left);
+  if (open.texts.length || open.atomics.length || open.edges.length) {
+    close(true);
+  }
+  placeDeferred();
 
-  return { lines, height: y, width: widest };
+  if (!floatsPlaced.length) return { lines, height: y, width: widest };
+  const floatRow = besideLines(
+    Number.isFinite(options.width) ? [] : lines,
+    floatsPlaced,
+    options.startY,
+  );
+  return { lines, height: y, width: widest, floatRow };
 }
 
 const EMPTY: InlineResult = { lines: [], height: 0, width: 0 };
 
-/** Append one layout's lines as LineBoxes at an offset; returns the widest. */
+/**
+ * Which line each float a paragraph placed stands beside: the one whose top
+ * it went at, whose content moved over for it — added up on the line, for
+ * what the line is measured with (`LineBox.floats`). The widest row of the
+ * rest, side by side where they went at one top, is the answer. Both lines
+ * and floats come in order down the paragraph, since a float goes no
+ * higher than the one before it.
+ *
+ * The lines are handed over only where the paragraph had no width limit,
+ * where its content is measured at its widest and a float is beside a line
+ * because nothing made the line go under it. At a width, the least a
+ * paragraph can be is its widest word or float, not the two side by side
+ * (where the word ran past the room a float left it), and its floats are
+ * rows of their own.
+ */
+function besideLines(lines: LineBox[], placed: Box[], startY: number): number {
+  let row = 0;
+  let rowTop = NaN;
+  let widest = 0;
+  let at = 0;
+  for (const box of placed) {
+    const top = box.y - box.marginTop - startY;
+    const width = box.width + box.marginLeft + box.marginRight;
+    while (at < lines.length && lines[at].y < top - 0.01) at += 1;
+    const line = lines[at];
+    if (line && Math.abs(line.y - top) <= 0.01) {
+      line.floats = (line.floats ?? 0) + width;
+    } else if (Math.abs(top - rowTop) <= 0.01) row += width;
+    else {
+      widest = Math.max(widest, row);
+      row = width;
+      rowTop = top;
+    }
+  }
+  return Math.max(widest, row);
+}
+
+/** A no-break space in a paragraph's face, and its advance, per font
+ *  manager and per style — which the cascade shares between every element
+ *  of a kind, so a document of paragraphs asks once. */
+const SPACERS = new WeakMap<
+  object,
+  WeakMap<ComputedStyle, { run: TextRun; advance: number }>
+>();
+
+/**
+ * An inline box's edge as a run of the one layout: a no-break space in the
+ * paragraph's face, letter-spaced to the edge's width. A no-break space
+ * glues to the text on either side, so a start edge goes to whichever line
+ * the box's first word goes to, and an end edge stays with its last; a line
+ * may still break after a space before it (UAX #14, LB12a). It is drawn as
+ * nothing, and is no part of the document's text: the line's text notes
+ * where it is (`LineText.gaps`). Laid out piece by piece instead, a
+ * paragraph with an inline `<code>` in it — whose padding is an edge —
+ * cost five layouts where one does, and a document of them reflowed two
+ * and a half times slower.
+ */
+function spacerRun(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+  width: number,
+): TextRun {
+  let byStyle = SPACERS.get(fonts);
+  if (!byStyle) {
+    byStyle = new WeakMap();
+    SPACERS.set(fonts, byStyle);
+  }
+  let spacer = byStyle.get(style);
+  if (!spacer) {
+    const face = {
+      family: style.fontFamily,
+      size: style.fontSize,
+      weight: style.fontWeight,
+      style:
+        style.fontStyle === 'normal'
+          ? ('normal' as const)
+          : ('italic' as const),
+    };
+    const run: TextRun = { text: '\u00a0', ...face };
+    spacer = { run, advance: fonts.layout([run], face, {}).width };
+    byStyle.set(style, spacer);
+  }
+  return { ...spacer.run, letterSpacing: width - spacer.advance };
+}
+
+/** Text that bidi could reorder around a spacer: any right-to-left
+ *  letter, and the explicit embedding and isolate controls. */
+const REORDERS =
+  /[\u0590-\u08ff\ufb1d-\ufdff\ufe70-\ufefc\u202a-\u202e\u2066-\u2069]|[\ud802\ud803\ud83a\ud83b]/;
+
+/** Whether a paragraph's edges can be spacers: it reads left to right, and
+ *  nothing in it can be reordered. */
+function spacersHold(style: ComputedStyle, items: Item[]): boolean {
+  if (style.direction !== 'ltr') return false;
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (item.kind === 'text' && REORDERS.test(item.run.text)) return false;
+    // A negative margin takes room back. As a spacer it is a space with
+    // negative letter spacing, which ntk's line fill counts and CoreText's
+    // typesetter breaks the line before: the line at a time does the sum.
+    if (
+      item.kind === 'edge' &&
+      (item.box.style.direction !== 'ltr' || item.width < 0)
+    )
+      return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A paragraph whose inline boxes have edges, as one layout with the edges
+ * in it as spacers (`spacerRun`), each line told where its spacers are and
+ * where they put the edges. Null where the engine began a line with an
+ * edge that closes a box: a break after a box's last character is after
+ * its end edge, which stays on the line of the content it closes (CSS Text
+ * 3, 5.1), and a line break after a space may come before a no-break space
+ * (UAX #14, LB12a), which is what a spacer is. The lines a piece at a time
+ * keep it there.
+ */
+function layoutSpaced(
+  items: Item[],
+  base: Record<string, unknown>,
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+  width: number,
+  lineHeightMul: number,
+  align: string,
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+): InlineResult | null {
+  const wrapWords = overflowWrapOf(style, items);
+  const runs: TextRun[] = [];
+  const spans = new SpanMap();
+  const spacers: { at: number; edge: Extract<Item, { kind: 'edge' }> }[] = [];
+  let doc = 0;
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (item.kind === 'text') {
+      doc = item.start;
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (item.kind === 'edge') {
+      spacers.push({ at: spans.laidOut, edge: item });
+      spans.add(doc, 1, null);
+      runs.push(spacerRun(fonts, style, item.width));
+    } else if (item.kind === 'text') {
+      spans.add(
+        item.start,
+        item.run.text.length,
+        item.control ? null : item.box,
+      );
+      runs.push(item.run);
+      if (!item.control) doc = item.start + item.run.text.length;
+    }
+  }
+  const layoutOptions = {
+    maxWidth: wraps(style) ? width : undefined,
+    lineHeight: lineHeightMul,
+    align,
+    direction: style.direction,
+    overflowWrap: wrapWords,
+  };
+  let layout = fonts.layout(runs, base, layoutOptions);
+  LAYOUT_RUNS.set(layout, runs);
+  // justified with its spacers in it, which are edges and not spaces
+  layout = justifiedLayout(
+    fonts,
+    runs,
+    base,
+    layoutOptions,
+    layout,
+    width,
+    justification(style),
+    new Set(spacers.map((spacer) => spacer.at)),
+  ).layout;
+  const place = wraps(style) ? null : unwrappedPlacer(style, width);
+  let offsets: number[] | null = null;
+  const lines: LineBox[] = [];
+  let widest = 0;
+  let next = 0;
+  for (let i = 0; i < layout.lines.length; i += 1) {
+    const natural = layout.lines[i];
+    const dx = place ? place(natural) : 0;
+    const edges: EdgePlacement[] = [];
+    while (next < spacers.length && spacers[next].at < natural.end) {
+      const { at, edge } = spacers[next];
+      next += 1;
+      if (at < natural.start) continue;
+      if (i > 0 && edge.side === 'end' && at === natural.start) return null;
+      const run = natural.runs?.find((r) => r.start === at);
+      const x = run
+        ? natural.x + run.x
+        : layout.caretPosition(
+            codePointAt((offsets ??= layoutOffsets(layout)), at),
+          ).x;
+      edges.push({
+        box: edge.box,
+        side: edge.side,
+        x: x + dx,
+        width: edge.width,
+      });
+    }
+    const text: LineText = {
+      layout,
+      layoutLine: i,
+      drawX: dx,
+      drawY: 0,
+      textStart: spans.documentAt(natural.start),
+      textEnd: spans.documentAt(natural.end),
+      layoutStart: natural.start,
+      spans,
+    };
+    spans.giveGaps(text, natural.start, natural.end);
+    lines.push({
+      x: natural.x + dx,
+      y: natural.y,
+      width: natural.width,
+      height: natural.height,
+      baseline: natural.baseline - natural.y,
+      texts: [text],
+      textStart: text.textStart,
+      textEnd: text.textEnd,
+      atomics: [],
+      ...(edges.length ? { edges } : null),
+    });
+    widest = Math.max(widest, natural.width);
+  }
+  return { lines, height: layout.height, width: widest };
+}
+
+/** The code point a code-unit offset into a layout's text starts. */
+function codePointAt(offsets: number[], units: number): number {
+  if (!offsets.length) return units;
+  let lo = 0;
+  let hi = offsets.length - 1;
+  while (lo < hi) {
+    const mid = (lo + hi + 1) >> 1;
+    if (offsets[mid] <= units) lo = mid;
+    else hi = mid - 1;
+  }
+  return lo;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A code-unit offset in a line's layout as a document index, and back:
+ * `textStart` is `layoutStart`, and every spacer before the offset is a
+ * unit of the layout that is no text of the document's. A document offset
+ * with a spacer right at it is past the spacer, where a caret or a range's
+ * start goes — inside a padded box, after its padding — and before it as
+ * a range's `end`, so a selection does not take in the padding after it.
+ */
+export function documentOffsetOf(text: LineText, units: number): number {
+  let doc = text.textStart + (units - text.layoutStart);
+  for (const gap of text.gaps ?? []) if (gap < units) doc -= 1;
+  return doc;
+}
+
+export function layoutOffsetOf(
+  text: LineText,
+  doc: number,
+  end = false,
+): number {
+  let units = text.layoutStart + (doc - text.textStart);
+  for (const gap of text.gaps ?? []) {
+    if (end ? gap < units : gap <= units) units += 1;
+  }
+  return units;
+}
+
+/** Append one layout's lines as LineBoxes at an offset, each moved where
+ *  `place` says; returns the widest. */
 function emitLayout(
   layout: TextLayoutLike,
   spans: SpanMap,
   xOff: number,
   yOff: number,
   lines: LineBox[],
+  place: LinePlacer | null = null,
 ): number {
   let widest = 0;
   for (let i = 0; i < layout.lines.length; i += 1) {
     const natural = layout.lines[i];
+    const dx = place ? place(natural) : 0;
     const text: LineText = {
       layout,
       layoutLine: i,
-      drawX: xOff,
+      drawX: xOff + dx,
       drawY: yOff,
       textStart: spans.documentAt(natural.start),
       textEnd: spans.documentAt(natural.end),
       layoutStart: natural.start,
+      spans,
     };
+    spans.giveGaps(text, natural.start, natural.end);
     lines.push({
-      x: xOff + natural.x,
+      x: xOff + dx + natural.x,
       y: yOff + natural.y,
       width: natural.width,
       height: natural.height,
-      baseline: natural.baseline,
+      baseline: natural.baseline - natural.y,
       texts: [text],
       textStart: text.textStart,
       textEnd: text.textEnd,
@@ -410,6 +1518,20 @@ const CHUNK_TRIGGER_CHARS = 16384;
 const CHUNK_MAX_CHARS = 8192;
 const CHUNK_MAX_HARD_LINES = 64;
 
+/** Where `layoutChunked` cuts a text — a chunk's most characters and hard
+ *  lines — and the cut each chunk's layout makes, if any. */
+interface Chunking {
+  chars: number;
+  hardLines: number;
+  cut: Cut | null;
+}
+
+const CHUNKS: Chunking = {
+  chars: CHUNK_MAX_CHARS,
+  hardLines: CHUNK_MAX_HARD_LINES,
+  cut: null,
+};
+
 /**
  * A long hard-broken text — a `<pre>` holding a log, a wall of `<br>`s — laid
  * out as a sequence of layouts split at newline boundaries.
@@ -431,7 +1553,9 @@ function layoutChunked(
   lineHeightMul: number,
   align: string,
   fonts: FontsLike,
+  chunking: Chunking = CHUNKS,
 ): InlineResult {
+  const wrapWords = overflowWrapOf(style, items);
   const lines: LineBox[] = [];
   let widest = 0;
   let y = 0;
@@ -441,16 +1565,35 @@ function layoutChunked(
   let chars = 0;
   let hardLines = 0;
 
+  const { cut } = chunking;
+  const place = wraps(style) || cut ? null : unwrappedPlacer(style, width);
   const flush = (): void => {
     if (!chunkRuns.length) return;
-    const layout = fonts.layout(chunkRuns, base, {
-      maxWidth: wraps(style) ? width : undefined,
+    const chunkOptions = {
+      maxWidth: wraps(style) || cut ? width : undefined,
       lineHeight: lineHeightMul,
       align,
       direction: style.direction,
-    });
+      overflowWrap: cutWrap(style, cut, wrapWords),
+      ...cut,
+    };
+    let layout = fonts.layout(chunkRuns, base, chunkOptions);
     LAYOUT_RUNS.set(layout, chunkRuns);
-    widest = Math.max(widest, emitLayout(layout, chunkSpans, 0, y, lines));
+    // a chunk ends at a forced break or at the paragraph's end, which is
+    // where `justifiedRuns` takes a chunk's last line to end
+    layout = justifiedLayout(
+      fonts,
+      chunkRuns,
+      base,
+      chunkOptions,
+      layout,
+      width,
+      justification(style),
+    ).layout;
+    widest = Math.max(
+      widest,
+      emitLayout(layout, chunkSpans, 0, y, lines, place),
+    );
     y += layout.height;
     chunkRuns = [];
     chunkSpans = new SpanMap();
@@ -460,7 +1603,7 @@ function layoutChunked(
 
   for (const item of items) {
     let text = item.run.text;
-    let docStart = item.box.textStart;
+    let docStart = item.start;
     while (text.length) {
       // Scan up to the budgets, remembering the last newline: the split has
       // to land just after one for the chunking to be exact.
@@ -470,8 +1613,8 @@ function layoutChunked(
       let taken = chars;
       while (
         i < text.length &&
-        taken < CHUNK_MAX_CHARS &&
-        lines2 < CHUNK_MAX_HARD_LINES
+        taken < chunking.chars &&
+        lines2 < chunking.hardLines
       ) {
         if (text.charCodeAt(i) === 10) {
           lines2 += 1;
@@ -485,7 +1628,7 @@ function layoutChunked(
         chunkRuns.push(
           text === item.run.text ? item.run : { ...item.run, text },
         );
-        chunkSpans.add(docStart, text.length);
+        chunkSpans.add(docStart, text.length, item.box);
         chars = taken;
         hardLines = lines2;
         break;
@@ -501,7 +1644,7 @@ function layoutChunked(
         const next = text.indexOf('\n', i);
         const end = next < 0 ? text.length : next + 1;
         chunkRuns.push({ ...item.run, text: text.slice(0, end) });
-        chunkSpans.add(docStart, end);
+        chunkSpans.add(docStart, end, item.box);
         flush();
         docStart += end;
         text = text.slice(end);
@@ -509,7 +1652,7 @@ function layoutChunked(
       }
       const cut = lastBreak + 1;
       chunkRuns.push({ ...item.run, text: text.slice(0, cut) });
-      chunkSpans.add(docStart, cut);
+      chunkSpans.add(docStart, cut, item.box);
       flush();
       docStart += cut;
       text = text.slice(cut);
@@ -527,100 +1670,868 @@ interface OpenLine {
   left: number;
   texts: LineText[];
   atomics: AtomicPlacement[];
+  edges: EdgePlacement[];
+  /** All of the above in the order they were placed, which is the logical
+   *  order, and where on the line each began: what a line with
+   *  right-to-left text on it is put into visual order by. */
+  order: Placed[];
+  /** The advance of the spaces the line ends with, kept in `x` for what
+   *  may follow them on it and no part of the line if nothing does. */
+  hang: number;
+  /** The first line's `text-indent`, which `x` starts at. */
+  indent: number;
 }
 
+type Placed =
+  | { kind: 'text'; at: number; item: LineText; reads: Reading }
+  | { kind: 'atomic'; at: number; item: AtomicPlacement }
+  | { kind: 'edge'; at: number; item: EdgePlacement };
+
+/** Which way a fragment's letters read: all one way, both, or neither —
+ *  spaces, digits and punctuation, which are neutrals. */
+type Reading = 'ltr' | 'rtl' | 'mixed' | null;
+
 function openLine(indent: number): OpenLine {
-  return { x: indent, left: 0, texts: [], atomics: [] };
+  return {
+    x: indent,
+    left: 0,
+    texts: [],
+    atomics: [],
+    edges: [],
+    order: [],
+    hang: 0,
+    indent,
+  };
 }
 
-function finishLine(open: OpenLine, y: number): LineBox | null {
-  if (!open.texts.length && !open.atomics.length) return null;
-  let ascent = 0;
-  let descent = 0;
-  let height = 0;
-  for (const text of open.texts) {
-    const natural = text.layout.lines[text.layoutLine];
-    ascent = Math.max(ascent, natural.baseline);
-    descent = Math.max(descent, natural.height - natural.baseline);
-    height = Math.max(height, natural.height);
-  }
-  for (const placed of open.atomics) {
-    const h =
-      placed.box.height + placed.box.marginTop + placed.box.marginBottom;
-    const va = placed.box.style.verticalAlign;
-    if (va === 'top' || va === 'bottom' || va === 'middle')
-      height = Math.max(height, h);
-    else ascent = Math.max(ascent, h);
-  }
-  height = Math.max(height, ascent + descent);
-  const baseline = Math.max(ascent, (height - ascent - descent) / 2 + ascent);
+/** Whether a line may break where it has got to: after the white space it
+ *  ends on, which hangs, or after an inline-block, where its block wraps. */
+function breaksAtEnd(open: OpenLine, style: ComputedStyle): boolean {
+  return (
+    wraps(style) &&
+    (open.hang > 0 || open.order[open.order.length - 1]?.kind === 'atomic')
+  );
+}
 
-  let textStart = Infinity;
-  let textEnd = 0;
-  for (const text of open.texts) {
-    textStart = Math.min(textStart, text.textStart);
-    textEnd = Math.max(textEnd, text.textEnd);
-  }
-  const line: LineBox = {
-    x: open.left,
-    y,
-    width: open.x,
-    height,
-    baseline,
-    texts: open.texts,
-    textStart: Number.isFinite(textStart) ? textStart : 0,
+/**
+ * How wide the content from `from` on is up to where its line may break:
+ * its text up to a space it may break at — one `holdNoWrap` left a space —
+ * or, in a block that does not wrap, up to a line's end, with the edges of
+ * inline boxes on the way, and an inline-block, which has a break before it
+ * where the block wraps. Floats take no room on the line.
+ */
+function unbreakableAfter(
+  items: readonly Item[],
+  from: number,
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  base: Record<string, unknown>,
+): number {
+  const wrapping = wraps(style);
+  const runs: TextRun[] = [];
+  let width = 0;
+  for (let i = from; i < items.length; i += 1) {
+    const item = items[i];
+    if (item.kind === 'float') continue;
+    if (item.kind === 'edge') {
+      width += item.width;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (item.kind === 'atomic') {
+      if (wrapping) break;
+      width += item.box.width + item.box.marginLeft + item.box.marginRight;
+      continue;
+    }
+    const text = item.run.text;
+    const stop = wrapping ? text.search(/[ \t\n]/) : text.indexOf('\n');
+    if (stop < 0) {
+      runs.push(item.run);
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (stop > 0) runs.push({ ...item.run, text: text.slice(0, stop) });
+    break;
+  }
+  return runs.length ? width + fonts.layout(runs, base, {}).width : width;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Close a line: its height and baseline from what is on it, then where it
+ * sits — in the room `bandFor` answers for a line that tall, and aligned in
+ * it by `shift` of the room it did not use (0 flush left, 1 flush right, ½
+ * centred), moved onto every text, atomic and edge on it at once.
+ */
+function finishLine(
+  open: OpenLine,
+  y: number,
+  bandFor: (height: number) => { left: number; right: number },
+  shift: number,
+  rtl: boolean,
+  strut: InlineDecoration | null,
+  lifts: Lifts | null = null,
+  justify: LineJustify | null = null,
+): LineBox | null {
+  if (!open.texts.length && !open.atomics.length && !open.edges.length) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const reordered = open.order.some((p) => needsOrdering(p, rtl));
+  if (reordered) reorderLine(open, rtl);
+  // Every line box starts with the block's strut, its face at its line
+  // height, so a line of images alone is still as tall as `line-height`
+  // makes a line (CSS 2.1 10.8.1). Not one with nothing on it that takes
+  // room, which has no height at all (9.4.2), nor one that holds a block
+  // an inline box was split around, which is no line of text.
+  const held =
+    strut &&
+    (open.texts.length > 0 ||
+      open.atomics.some((placed) =>
+        placed.box.style.display.startsWith('inline'),
+      ) ||
+      open.edges.some(
+        (edge) => edge.width !== 0 || hasEdgeOn(edge.box, edge.side),
+      ));
+  let ascent = held ? strut.ascent : 0;
+  let descent = held ? strut.descent : 0;
+  // A text `vertical-align` raises takes its own box's room about where it
+  // is raised to. A `top` or `bottom` box takes the room of all it holds
+  // on the line about its baseline, and the line is as tall as that.
+  const lifted = lifts ? open.texts.map((text) => lifts.of(text)) : null;
+  let edges: Map<
+    Box,
+    { to: 'top' | 'bottom'; ascent: number; descent: number }
+  > | null = null;
+  for (let i = 0; i < open.texts.length; i += 1) {
+    const lift = lifted?.[i];
+    if (lift) {
+      if (lift.edge) {
+        edges ??= new Map();
+        let room = edges.get(lift.edge.box);
+        if (!room) {
+          room = {
+            to: lift.edge.to,
+            ascent: lift.edge.ascent,
+            descent: lift.edge.descent,
+          };
+          edges.set(lift.edge.box, room);
+        }
+        room.ascent = Math.max(room.ascent, lift.ascent + lift.raise);
+        room.descent = Math.max(room.descent, lift.descent - lift.raise);
+      } else {
+        ascent = Math.max(ascent, lift.ascent + lift.raise);
+        descent = Math.max(descent, lift.descent - lift.raise);
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+    const natural = open.texts[i].layout.lines[open.texts[i].layoutLine];
+    const own = natural.baseline - natural.y;
+    ascent = Math.max(ascent, own);
+    descent = Math.max(descent, natural.height - own);
+  }
+  // an inline box with no text on the line is on it all the same, as tall
+  // as its own face and line height make it (CSS 2.1 10.8): an empty one,
+  // or one whose text is on another line — raised, or with a line height
+  // of its own, which an empty `<span>` made the line's no taller for.
+  // Only on a line that is one at all, which is none for boxes of no
+  // edges and no text (9.4.2)
+  if (lifts && held) {
+    for (const placed of open.edges) {
+      if (placed.side !== 'start' || placed.box.kind !== 'inline') continue;
+      const room = lifts.ofBox(placed.box);
+      if (!room) continue;
+      ascent = Math.max(ascent, room.ascent + room.raise);
+      descent = Math.max(descent, room.descent - room.raise);
+    }
+  }
+  // `top` and `bottom` boxes are set against the line's edges rather than
+  // its baseline, so all they ask of it is to be as tall as they are
+  let top = 0;
+  let bottom = 0;
+  for (const placed of open.atomics) {
+    const box = placed.box;
+    const h = box.height + box.marginTop + box.marginBottom;
+    const va = box.style.verticalAlign;
+    if (va === 'top' || va === 'bottom') {
+      if (va === 'top') top = Math.max(top, h);
+      else bottom = Math.max(bottom, h);
+      continue;
+    }
+    // on the line's baseline by its own, raised from it by its
+    // `vertical-align`, and below it by the rest of it
+    const raise = placed.raise ?? 0;
+    const b = atomicBaseline(box);
+    ascent = Math.max(ascent, b + raise);
+    descent = Math.max(descent, h - b - raise);
+  }
+  if (edges) {
+    for (const room of edges.values()) {
+      const h = room.ascent + room.descent;
+      if (room.to === 'top') top = Math.max(top, h);
+      else bottom = Math.max(bottom, h);
+    }
+  }
+  // Where the baseline goes in a line one of them made taller than the
+  // rest is left open (CSS 2.1 10.8.1). Browsers keep it where the rest
+  // puts it, under the line's top, and only a taller `bottom` box moves it
+  // down: an image set `top` beside a line of text has the text at its
+  // top, not halfway down it.
+  let height = ascent + descent;
+  let baseline = ascent;
+  if (bottom > height) {
+    baseline += bottom - height;
+    height = bottom;
+  }
+  height = Math.max(height, top);
+
+  // Placed beside the floats at the text's height; a float the whole line
+  // reaches moves it, and the alignment divides the room that is left.
+  // The indent is at the line's start, which is its right in a
+  // right-to-left paragraph: the content moves back over it there, and
+  // the room it takes is at the other end (CSS 2.1 16.1).
+  const band = bandFor(height);
+  const indent = rtl ? open.indent : 0;
+  let used = open.x - open.hang - indent;
+  let free = band.right - indent - band.left - used;
+  // A justified line fills its room (CSS Text 3, 7.4). Not yet one that
+  // reads right to left, whose pieces are in visual order by now and would
+  // take their shares from the wrong end: that is left at its start, as it
+  // was.
+  if (justify && !rtl && !reordered && Number.isFinite(free) && free > 0) {
+    const grew = justifyLine(open, free, justify);
+    used += grew;
+    free -= grew;
+  }
+  let dx = band.left - open.left - indent;
+  if (shift > 0 && Number.isFinite(free) && free > 0) dx += free * shift;
+  if (dx) {
+    for (const text of open.texts) text.drawX += dx;
+    for (const placed of open.atomics) placed.x += dx;
+    for (const edge of open.edges) edge.x += dx;
+    open.left += dx;
+  }
+
+  let textStart = Infinity;
+  let textEnd = 0;
+  for (const text of open.texts) {
+    textStart = Math.min(textStart, text.textStart);
+    textEnd = Math.max(textEnd, text.textEnd);
+  }
+  const line: LineBox = {
+    x: open.left + indent,
+    y,
+    width: used,
+    height,
+    baseline,
+    texts: open.texts,
+    textStart: Number.isFinite(textStart) ? textStart : 0,
     textEnd,
     atomics: open.atomics,
+    ...(open.edges.length ? { edges: open.edges } : null),
   };
-  for (const placed of open.atomics)
-    placed.y = y + alignAtomic(placed.box, line);
+  for (const placed of open.atomics) placed.y = y + alignAtomic(placed, line);
   // Every fragment on this line shares the line's baseline, whatever its own
-  // layout thinks: that is what makes a small `<sup>` beside body text sit on
-  // the same baseline rather than on its own.
-  for (const text of open.texts) {
+  // layout thinks: that is what makes a small `<span>` beside body text sit
+  // on the same baseline rather than on its own. One that `vertical-align`
+  // raises is drawn that far above it.
+  for (let i = 0; i < open.texts.length; i += 1) {
+    const text = open.texts[i];
     const natural = text.layout.lines[text.layoutLine];
-    text.drawY = y + baseline - natural.baseline - natural.y;
+    let at = y + baseline;
+    const lift = lifted?.[i];
+    if (lift) {
+      const room = lift.edge && edges!.get(lift.edge.box)!;
+      if (lift.edge?.to === 'top') at = y + room!.ascent - lift.raise;
+      else if (lift.edge) at = y + height - room!.descent - lift.raise;
+      else at -= lift.raise;
+      if (at !== y + baseline) {
+        TEXT_RAISES.set(text, y + baseline - at);
+        SHIFTED_LINES.add(line);
+      }
+      // and the boxes it is in, up to the `top` or `bottom` one, whose
+      // backgrounds are drawn from their own baselines
+      if (lift.edge && lifts) {
+        const owner = text.spans.boxAt?.(text.layoutStart);
+        for (
+          let at2 = owner?.parent;
+          at2?.kind === 'inline';
+          at2 = at2.parent
+        ) {
+          const placed = lifts.edgeOf(at2);
+          if (!placed) break;
+          const room = edges!.get(placed.edge);
+          if (!room) break;
+          const own =
+            placed.edge.style.verticalAlign === 'top'
+              ? y + room.ascent
+              : y + height - room.descent;
+          let raises = LINE_BOX_RAISES.get(line);
+          if (!raises) LINE_BOX_RAISES.set(line, (raises = new Map()));
+          raises.set(at2, y + baseline - (own - placed.raise));
+          SHIFTED_LINES.add(line);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    text.drawY = at - natural.baseline;
   }
   return line;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Put a line's pieces in visual order. The text and the atomics first, by
+ * UAX #9's L2 over pieces rather than characters: a fragment is in order
+ * inside itself already — the engine laid it out bidirectionally — so what
+ * is left to order is the fragments and the atomics between them, each at
+ * a level — a fragment the direction its letters read in, or the
+ * paragraph's where they read both ways, and a neutral (an atomic, a
+ * fragment of spaces and digits) its neighbours' where they agree and the
+ * paragraph's where they do not (N1, N2).
+ *
+ * Then each element's edges, innermost first, around what of it is on the
+ * line: CSS 2.1 8.6 puts an ltr element's left margin, border and padding
+ * on its leftmost box and a rtl one's right ones on its rightmost, which is
+ * a matter of its `direction` rather than of which way its text reads — so
+ * an edge is placed beside its element's pieces, never ordered among them.
+ * Each piece keeps the room it took, and a right-to-left fragment's hung
+ * trailing space goes to its left, where its logical end is.
+ */
+function reorderLine(open: OpenLine, rtl: boolean): void {
+  const order = open.order;
+  const n = order.length;
+  if (!n) return;
+  const content: number[] = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < n; i += 1) if (order[i].kind !== 'edge') content.push(i);
+  const strong = content.map((i): boolean | null => {
+    const p = order[i];
+    if (p.kind !== 'text' || p.reads === null) return null;
+    return p.reads === 'mixed' ? rtl : p.reads === 'rtl';
+  });
+  const strongAt = (from: number, step: number): boolean => {
+    for (let k = from + step; k >= 0 && k < content.length; k += step) {
+      if (strong[k] !== null) return strong[k]!;
+    }
+    return rtl;
+  };
+  const isRtl = strong.map((r, k) => {
+    if (r !== null) return r;
+    const before = strongAt(k, -1);
+    return before === strongAt(k, 1) ? before : rtl;
+  });
+  // R is level 1 in either paragraph; L is 0 in a left-to-right one and 2
+  // in a right-to-left one
+  const levels = isRtl.map((r) => (r ? 1 : rtl ? 2 : 0));
+  const visual = content.map((_, k) => k);
+  for (let level = Math.max(0, ...levels); level >= 1; level -= 1) {
+    for (let a = 0; a < visual.length;) {
+      if (levels[visual[a]] < level) {
+        a += 1;
+        continue;
+      }
+      let b = a;
+      while (b < visual.length && levels[visual[b]] >= level) b += 1;
+      for (let i = a, j = b - 1; i < j; i += 1, j -= 1) {
+        [visual[i], visual[j]] = [visual[j], visual[i]];
+      }
+      a = b;
+    }
+  }
+  const seq = visual.map((k) => content[k]);
+
+  const elements = new Map<Box, { start: number | null; end: number | null }>();
+  for (let i = 0; i < n; i += 1) {
+    const p = order[i];
+    if (p.kind !== 'edge') continue;
+    const sides = elements.get(p.item.box) ?? { start: null, end: null };
+    sides[p.item.side] = i;
+    elements.set(p.item.box, sides);
+  }
+  const inside = [...elements].sort(([a], [b]) => depthOf(b) - depthOf(a));
+  for (const [box, { start, end }] of inside) {
+    // what of the element is on this line: everything between its edges,
+    // or the line's end where one of them is on another line
+    const from = start ?? -1;
+    const to = end ?? n;
+    let lo = -1;
+    let hi = -1;
+    for (let k = 0; k < seq.length; k += 1) {
+      if (seq[k] > from && seq[k] < to) {
+        if (lo < 0) lo = k;
+        hi = k;
+      }
+    }
+    if (lo < 0) {
+      // Nothing of it here but its edges: they go where it is in the text,
+      // after what comes before it, in the paragraph's direction.
+      let at = rtl ? seq.length : 0;
+      for (let i = from - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+        const k = seq.indexOf(i);
+        if (k >= 0) {
+          at = rtl ? k : k + 1;
+          break;
+        }
+      }
+      lo = at;
+      hi = at - 1;
+    }
+    const ltr = box.style.direction !== 'rtl';
+    const left = ltr ? start : end;
+    const right = ltr ? end : start;
+    if (right !== null) seq.splice(hi + 1, 0, right);
+    if (left !== null) seq.splice(lo, 0, left);
+  }
+
+  let x = order[0].at;
+  for (const i of seq) {
+    const piece = order[i];
+    const room = (i + 1 < n ? order[i + 1].at : open.x) - piece.at;
+    let dx = x - piece.at;
+    if (piece.kind === 'text') {
+      const natural = piece.item.layout.lines[piece.item.layoutLine];
+      const k = content.indexOf(i);
+      if (isRtl[k] && natural) dx += Math.max(0, room - natural.width);
+      piece.item.drawX += dx;
+    } else {
+      piece.item.x += dx;
+    }
+    x += room;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Whether a piece can be out of place in logical order: anything on a
+ *  right-to-left line, a fragment that reads right to left, or the edge of
+ *  an element whose direction is not the line's. A line of left-to-right
+ *  text, the common one, is placed as it was built. */
+function needsOrdering(piece: Placed, rtl: boolean): boolean {
+  if (rtl) return true;
+  if (piece.kind === 'text') return piece.reads === 'rtl';
+  return piece.kind === 'edge' && piece.item.box.style.direction === 'rtl';
+}
+
+/** How deep a box is in the tree — an element inside another is deeper. */
+export function depthOf(box: Box): number {
+  let depth = 0;
+  for (let at = box.parent; at; at = at.parent) depth += 1;
+  return depth;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Which way the text from `start` to `end` of a segment's runs reads, from
+ * its letters. Asked of the text rather than of the engine's runs: a run of
+ * the space before a word reads the paragraph's way wherever it starts a
+ * fragment, which says nothing about the word, and an engine may not say
+ * which way its runs went at all.
+ */
+function readingOf(runs: TextRun[], start: number, end: number): Reading {
+  let right = false;
+  let left = false;
+  let at = 0;
+  for (const run of runs) {
+    const length = run.text.length;
+    const from = Math.max(start, at);
+    const to = Math.min(end, at + length);
+    if (to > from) {
+      const text =
+        to - from === length ? run.text : run.text.slice(from - at, to - at);
+      right ||= RIGHT_TO_LEFT.test(text);
+      left ||= LEFT_TO_RIGHT.test(text);
+    }
+    at += length;
+    if (at >= end) break;
+  }
+  return right ? (left ? 'mixed' : 'rtl') : left ? 'ltr' : null;
+}
+
+/** A letter of a script written right to left — Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac,
+ *  Thaana, N'Ko and their neighbours, their presentation forms, and the
+ *  supplementary planes' right-to-left blocks — and any other letter. */
+const RIGHT_TO_LEFT =
+  /[\u0590-\u08FF\uFB1D-\uFDFF\uFE70-\uFEFF\u{10800}-\u{10FFF}\u{1E800}-\u{1EFFF}]/u;
+const LEFT_TO_RIGHT =
+  /(?![\u0590-\u08FF\uFB1D-\uFDFF\uFE70-\uFEFF\u{10800}-\u{10FFF}\u{1E800}-\u{1EFFF}])\p{L}/u;
+
 /** Where an atomic's top edge sits, relative to the line box top. */
-function alignAtomic(box: Box, line: LineBox): number {
-  const h = box.height + box.marginTop + box.marginBottom;
+function alignAtomic(placed: AtomicPlacement, line: LineBox): number {
+  const box = placed.box;
   switch (box.style.verticalAlign) {
     case 'top':
       return 0;
     case 'bottom':
-      return line.height - h;
-    case 'middle':
-      return (line.height - h) / 2;
+      return line.height - (box.height + box.marginTop + box.marginBottom);
+    default:
+      return line.baseline - atomicBaseline(box) - (placed.raise ?? 0);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * How far an atomic's `vertical-align` raises its baseline above its
+ * parent's (CSS 2.1 10.8.1), as `Lifts` raises an inline box's: `sub` and
+ * `super` by a fifth and a third of the parent's font size and a pixel,
+ * `text-top` and `text-bottom` to the edges of the parent's font, `middle`
+ * by its middle to half the parent's x-height above the baseline, a length
+ * by itself and a percentage of its own line height. `top` and `bottom` are
+ * the line box's edges, and raise nothing from a baseline.
+ *
+ * `middle` is the parent's baseline, not the middle of the line: an image
+ * set `middle` beside text in a line an image before it made tall sat
+ * where that image left room, and drew the text beside it a pixel off.
+ * Read before the line moves the atomic, as `atomicBaseline` is.
+ */
+function atomicRaise(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  box: Box,
+  parent: ComputedStyle,
+): number {
+  const va = box.style.verticalAlign;
+  switch (va) {
+    case 'baseline':
+    case 'top':
+    case 'bottom':
+      return 0;
     case 'sub':
-      return line.baseline - h + line.height * 0.1;
+      return -(parent.fontSize / 5 + parent.fontSize / 16);
     case 'super':
-      return line.baseline - h - line.height * 0.25;
+      return parent.fontSize / 3 + parent.fontSize / 16;
+  }
+  const h = box.height + box.marginTop + box.marginBottom;
+  const b = atomicBaseline(box);
+  switch (va) {
+    case 'text-top':
+      return faceExtent(fonts, parent).ascent - b;
+    case 'text-bottom':
+      return h - b - faceExtent(fonts, parent).descent;
+    case 'middle':
+      return xHeightOf(fonts, parent) / 2 + h / 2 - b;
     default:
-      if (typeof box.style.verticalAlign === 'number') {
-        return line.baseline - h - box.style.verticalAlign;
+      return typeof va === 'number'
+        ? va
+        : resolve(va, lineHeightOf(fonts, box.style));
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Where an atomic's baseline is, from the top of its margin box (CSS 2.1
+ * 10.8.1, 17.5.3): an inline-block's is its last line box's, an
+ * inline-table's its first row's — its first line box's — and the bottom of
+ * its margin box where it has none, is replaced, or clips what overflows
+ * it. Set bottom-on-baseline, an inline-block's text sat its descent above
+ * the text beside it, and a line holding one grew by as much.
+ *
+ * Read while the atomic is still where it was laid out, before the line
+ * moves it: its lines are then at the same offset from its top as they will
+ * be after.
+ */
+function atomicBaseline(box: Box): number {
+  const bottom = box.height + box.marginTop + box.marginBottom;
+  if (
+    box.kind === 'replaced' ||
+    scrolls(box.style) ||
+    // layout containment keeps its baseline in (CSS Containment 2, 3.3)
+    box.style.contain & CONTAIN_LAYOUT
+  ) {
+    return bottom;
+  }
+  const baseline =
+    box.kind === 'table'
+      ? tableBaseline(box)
+      : // an inline flex box sits on its first (CSS Flexbox 8.5), where an
+        // inline block sits on its last line's
+        box.kind === 'flex'
+        ? firstBaselineIn(box)
+        : lastBaselineIn(box);
+  return baseline === null ? bottom : box.marginTop + (baseline - box.y);
+}
+
+/**
+ * A flex container's first baseline, or its last (CSS Flexbox 8.5): that
+ * of the first item on its first line that is aligned by its baseline — the
+ * last on its last line — or where none is, of its first item, or last,
+ * in `order`. An item gives its own, or where it has none, its border
+ * box's bottom edge. Not its last child's: an `inline-flex` of a small
+ * item and a big one sat on the big one's baseline. Null for a box with no
+ * item.
+ */
+function flexBaseline(box: Box, first: boolean): number | null {
+  let items: Box[] = [];
+  let reordered = false;
+  for (const child of box.children) {
+    if (child.outOfFlow || child.isFloat) continue;
+    if (child.kind === 'text' || child.kind === 'break') continue;
+    if (child.style.order !== 0) reordered = true;
+    items.push(child);
+  }
+  if (!items.length) return null;
+  if (reordered) items.sort((a, b) => a.style.order - b.style.order);
+  if (!first) items = items.reverse();
+  const style = box.style;
+  if (style.flexDirection.startsWith('row') && !style.grid) {
+    // a line ends where the next item does not go on along the main axis,
+    // which from the last item is where it goes on
+    const back =
+      ((style.flexDirection === 'row-reverse') !==
+        (style.direction === 'rtl')) !==
+      !first;
+    let last = NaN;
+    for (const item of items) {
+      if (!Number.isNaN(last) && (back ? item.x >= last : item.x <= last)) {
+        break;
+      }
+      last = item.x;
+      const align =
+        item.style.alignSelf === 'auto'
+          ? style.alignItems
+          : item.style.alignSelf;
+      if (align === 'baseline') return itemBaselineOf(item, first, style);
+    }
+  }
+  return itemBaselineOf(items[0], first, style);
+}
+
+/** A flex item's baseline, in document coordinates: its first line's or
+ *  its last's — its bottom margin edge where it clips what it holds — or
+ *  where it has none, its border box's bottom edge, which a grid does not
+ *  take from its item, and has none of its own then (CSS Grid 1, 9). */
+function itemBaselineOf(
+  item: Box,
+  first: boolean,
+  container: ComputedStyle,
+): number | null {
+  const found = childBaseline(item, first ? firstBaselineIn : lastBaselineIn);
+  if (found !== null) return found;
+  return container.grid ? null : item.y + item.height;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A table's baseline: its first row's (CSS 2.1 17.5.3), which is the first
+ * line of a cell in the row, or where no cell in it has a line, the bottom
+ * content edge of the row's lowest cell. Not the table's bottom: a table
+ * of empty rows stands on its first one, and the rest hang below the line.
+ */
+function tableBaseline(table: Box): number | null {
+  const { cells } = tableGrid(table);
+  let lowest = -Infinity;
+  for (const cell of cells) {
+    if (cell.row > 0) break;
+    const found = firstBaselineIn(cell.box);
+    if (found !== null) return found;
+    const b = cell.box;
+    lowest = Math.max(lowest, b.y + b.height - b.padBottom - b.borderBottom);
+  }
+  return lowest === -Infinity ? null : lowest;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The baseline a box's content gives it, in document coordinates: its last
+ * line box's, or its last in-flow child's with one — and a child that clips
+ * what overflows it gives its bottom margin edge and no deeper, whatever
+ * text it holds (CSS Box Alignment's synthesized baseline). Null where
+ * nothing in it has one.
+ */
+function lastBaselineIn(box: Box): number | null {
+  // a flex box's is its items', in the order it lays them out
+  if (box.kind === 'flex') return flexBaseline(box, false);
+  if (box.lines?.length) {
+    const line = box.lines[box.lines.length - 1];
+    return line.y + line.baseline;
+  }
+  for (let i = box.children.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+    const found = childBaseline(box.children[i], lastBaselineIn);
+    if (found !== null) return found;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/** The same, from the first line box or child: a table's baseline is its
+ *  first row's, and so is a table cell's. */
+export function firstBaselineIn(box: Box): number | null {
+  if (box.kind === 'flex') return flexBaseline(box, true);
+  if (box.lines?.length) return box.lines[0].y + box.lines[0].baseline;
+  for (const child of box.children) {
+    const found = childBaseline(child, firstBaselineIn);
+    if (found !== null) return found;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+function childBaseline(
+  child: Box,
+  inside: (box: Box) => number | null,
+): number | null {
+  if (child.outOfFlow || child.isFloat || child.kind === 'replaced') {
+    return null;
+  }
+  if (scrolls(child.style)) {
+    return child.y + child.height + child.marginBottom;
+  }
+  return inside(child);
+}
+
+/** An absolutely positioned box among a paragraph's content, before the
+ *  item at `index`. */
+interface StaticMark {
+  index: number;
+  box: Box;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The static position of each absolutely positioned box among a
+ * paragraph's content (CSS 2.1 10.3.7, 10.6.4): where it would have been
+ * in flow, found from the content before it. A block-level one would have
+ * broken the line that content is on, so it goes under that line at the
+ * line's start; an inline-level one goes on it, where the pen stood after
+ * that content, or under it where a forced break ends the text; either goes
+ * at the top where nothing comes before it. Taken as the block's content
+ * top for every one of them, a box after a line of text was drawn over that
+ * line, and a menu under its link came up on it. Not from a probe of
+ * intrinsic width, whose room is no place for one.
+ */
+function staticPositions(
+  statics: StaticMark[],
+  items: Item[],
+  lines: LineBox[],
+  block: Box,
+  options: InlineOptions,
+): void {
+  if (!Number.isFinite(options.width)) return;
+  for (const { index, box } of statics) {
+    const inline = INLINE_BEFORE_ABSOLUTE.has(box.style);
+    let top = lines.length ? lines[0].y : 0;
+    let x = 0;
+    const after = lines.length ? penAfter(items, index, lines) : null;
+    if (after) {
+      const { line, pen, broken } = after;
+      if (inline && !broken) {
+        top = line.y;
+        x = pen;
+      } else {
+        top = line.y + line.height;
+      }
+    }
+    box.staticPosition = {
+      from: block,
+      x: options.originX + x - block.x,
+      right: options.originX + options.width - block.x,
+      y: options.startY + top - block.y,
+    };
+  }
+}
+
+/** The line the content before `items[index]` ended on, where the pen
+ *  stood after it, and whether it ended in a forced break. Null where no
+ *  text or atomic comes before. */
+function penAfter(
+  items: Item[],
+  index: number,
+  lines: LineBox[],
+): { line: LineBox; pen: number; broken: boolean } | null {
+  for (let i = index - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+    const item = items[i];
+    if (item.kind === 'edge') {
+      // an inline box's margin, border or padding is content, which keeps
+      // its line from being one of no height (CSS 2.1 9.4.2), even where
+      // they add up to no width
+      if (!hasEdgeOn(item.box, item.side)) continue;
+      for (const line of lines) {
+        const placed = line.edges?.find(
+          (e) => e.box === item.box && e.side === item.side,
+        );
+        if (placed) {
+          return { line, pen: placed.x + placed.width, broken: false };
+        }
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (item.kind === 'atomic') {
+      for (const line of lines) {
+        const placed = line.atomics.find((a) => a.box === item.box);
+        if (!placed) continue;
+        const pen = placed.x + item.box.width + item.box.marginRight;
+        return { line, pen, broken: false };
       }
-      return line.baseline - h;
+      return null;
+    }
+    if (item.kind !== 'text' || item.control) continue;
+    const end = item.start + item.length;
+    const line =
+      lines.find((l) => l.textStart < end && end <= l.textEnd) ??
+      lines[lines.length - 1];
+    const broken = item.run.text.endsWith('\n');
+    return { line, pen: broken ? 0 : caretX(line, end), broken };
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/** Whether an inline box has margin, border or padding on a side. */
+function hasEdgeOn(box: Box, side: 'start' | 'end'): boolean {
+  const left = (side === 'start') !== (box.style.direction === 'rtl');
+  return left
+    ? box.marginLeft !== 0 || box.borderLeft !== 0 || box.padLeft !== 0
+    : box.marginRight !== 0 || box.borderRight !== 0 || box.padRight !== 0;
+}
+
+/** Where the caret at document offset `at` stands on a line, in the
+ *  paragraph's coordinates: the line's end where no text of it holds the
+ *  offset. */
+function caretX(line: LineBox, at: number): number {
+  for (const text of line.texts) {
+    if (at < text.textStart || at > text.textEnd) continue;
+    const offsets = layoutOffsets(text.layout);
+    const units = layoutOffsetOf(text, at, true);
+    const caret = text.layout.caretPosition(codePointAtOffset(offsets, units));
+    return text.drawX + caret.x;
   }
+  return line.x + line.width;
 }
 
 // --- gathering --------------------------------------------------------------
 
-/** Flatten an inline subtree into a stream of runs, atomics and breaks. */
-function collect(box: Box, out: Item[]): void {
+/** Flatten an inline subtree into a stream of runs, atomics, breaks and the
+ *  edges of the inline boxes the text sits in. */
+/** Gather an inline formatting context's content into `out`, and answer
+ *  how many floats it gathered — none unless `floats` asks for them. */
+function collect(
+  box: Box,
+  out: Item[],
+  width: number,
+  fonts: FontsLike | null,
+  block: ComputedStyle,
+  floats: boolean,
+  /** Where each absolutely positioned box among the content is: before the
+   *  item at `index`. No item of the stream, which reads none of them. */
+  statics?: StaticMark[],
+  /** Whether the text is an inline box's that has a margin, border or
+   *  padding at a side, which parts it from the text beside it. */
+  apart = false,
+): number {
+  let floated = 0;
   for (const child of box.children) {
-    if (child.outOfFlow || child.isFloat) continue;
+    if (child.outOfFlow) {
+      statics?.push({ index: out.length, box: child });
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (child.isFloat) {
+      if (floats) {
+        out.push({ kind: 'float', box: child });
+        floated += 1;
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
     switch (child.kind) {
       case 'text':
         if (child.text) {
-          out.push({
-            kind: 'text',
-            run: runFor(child.text, child.style, child.el),
-            box: child,
-            length: child.text.length,
-          });
+          const run = runFor(heldText(child), child.style);
+          // shaping is broken across the edge (CSS Text 3, 7.3), and the
+          // engine shapes a word that runs across spans shaped alike as one:
+          // its text is shaped on its own. At both of its sides, the one
+          // with no edge among them, as the engine takes it
+          if (apart) run.shapeApart = true;
+          if (child.style.wordSpacing) {
+            wordSpaced(out, child, run, child.style.wordSpacing);
+          } else {
+            out.push({
+              kind: 'text',
+              run,
+              box: child,
+              length: child.text.length,
+              start: child.textStart,
+            });
+          }
         }
         break;
       case 'break':
@@ -641,11 +2552,63 @@ function collect(box: Box, out: Item[]): void {
           },
           box: child,
           length: 1,
+          start: child.textStart,
         });
         break;
-      case 'inline':
-        collect(child, out);
+      case 'inline': {
+        const [start, end] = inlineEdges(child, width, fonts);
+        // Both edges or neither, so that an element with any is bounded on
+        // the line: its pieces are what lies between them, which is how a
+        // right-to-left line finds them (`reorderLine`), and how a rounded
+        // background knows the fragments that open and close it, to round
+        // only those corners — so it gets them even at width zero.
+        // And a box that `position: relative` moves or `vertical-align`
+        // raises has them, so that its text is laid out apart from the text
+        // around it, to be drawn where the box goes (`offsetInline`,
+        // `Lifts`)
+        // and a margin a border cancels is still an edge, which keeps its
+        // line from being one of no height (CSS 2.1 9.4.2)
+        const edged =
+          start !== 0 ||
+          end !== 0 ||
+          hasEdgeOn(child, 'start') ||
+          hasEdgeOn(child, 'end') ||
+          (child.decoration !== null &&
+            child.style.borderRadius.some((r) => r !== 0)) ||
+          isOffset(child.style) ||
+          child.style.verticalAlign !== 'baseline' ||
+          (fonts !== null && ownsLeading(fonts, block, child.style));
+        if (edged) {
+          out.push({ kind: 'edge', box: child, side: 'start', width: start });
+        }
+        // `unicode-bidi` as the controls it stands for, inside the box's
+        // edges and around its text, where it has any
+        const controls =
+          child.style.unicodeBidi !== 'normal' &&
+          child.subtreeTextEnd > child.subtreeTextStart
+            ? bidiControls(child.style, false)
+            : null;
+        if (controls) {
+          pushControls(out, controls[0], child, child.subtreeTextStart);
+        }
+        floated += collect(
+          child,
+          out,
+          width,
+          fonts,
+          block,
+          floats,
+          statics,
+          start !== 0 || end !== 0,
+        );
+        if (controls) {
+          pushControls(out, controls[1], child, child.subtreeTextEnd);
+        }
+        if (edged) {
+          out.push({ kind: 'edge', box: child, side: 'end', width: end });
+        }
         break;
+      }
       default:
         // Everything else that reached an inline context is inline-level and
         // atomic: a replaced element, an `inline-block`, an `inline-table`.
@@ -653,54 +2616,801 @@ function collect(box: Box, out: Item[]): void {
         break;
     }
   }
+  return floated;
+}
+
+/**
+ * What a paragraph does with a word too long for its line: cuts it where
+ * its style or any text in it says a word may be cut — `overflow-wrap`, or
+ * `word-break` or `line-break: anywhere`, which cut one whatever
+ * `overflow-wrap` says (CSS Text 3, 5.2 and 5.3) — and lets it run past the
+ * line's end where nothing does, as a browser does. The engine takes one answer for the paragraph, so a span
+ * that breaks its words breaks the paragraph's.
+ */
+function overflowWrapOf(
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+  items: readonly Item[],
+): 'normal' | 'break-word' {
+  if (breaksWords(style)) return 'break-word';
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (item.kind === 'text' && breaksWords(item.box.style)) {
+      return 'break-word';
+    }
+  }
+  return 'normal';
+}
+
+/** A `text-overflow` cut on a line that does not wrap puts its ellipsis at
+ *  the box's edge, inside a word where one runs past it, as a browser
+ *  does — which is the engine cutting the word there. */
+function cutWrap(
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+  cut: Cut | null | undefined,
+  wrapWords: 'normal' | 'break-word',
+): 'normal' | 'break-word' {
+  return cut && !wraps(style) ? 'break-word' : wrapWords;
+}
+
+function breaksWords(style: ComputedStyle): boolean {
+  return (
+    style.overflowWrap !== 'normal' ||
+    style.wordBreak === 'break-all' ||
+    style.wordBreak === 'break-word' ||
+    style.lineBreakAnywhere
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Keep the text of a `nowrap` element together where its block wraps (CSS
+ * 2.1 16.6). Its runs share the element as their `nowrap`, which ntk makes
+ * no break inside or between; and, for an engine that does not read it,
+ * a space it may not break after is a no-break space, as wide and as many,
+ * so every offset holds. Whether a line breaks between two characters is
+ * the call of the nearest element holding both (CSS Text 3, 5.1), so the
+ * space such an element ends on stays one to break at where the text after
+ * it is not the same element's: text that wraps, or another `nowrap`
+ * element's — two tags side by side, a collapsed space between them.
+ */
+function holdNoWrap(items: Item[], block: Box): void {
+  let last = true;
+  let nextGroup: Box | null = null;
+  for (let i = items.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+    const item = items[i];
+    if (item.kind !== 'text') continue;
+    const group = wraps(item.box.style) ? null : noWrapGroup(item.box, block);
+    if (group) {
+      const text = item.run.text;
+      let held = text;
+      // `pre`'s are no-break spaces already (`runFor`)
+      if (item.box.style.whiteSpace === 'nowrap' && text.includes(' ')) {
+        held = text.replace(/ /g, '\u00a0');
+        if (text.endsWith(' ') && (last || nextGroup !== group)) {
+          held = held.slice(0, -1) + ' ';
+        }
+      }
+      item.run = { ...item.run, text: held, nowrap: group };
+    }
+    last = false;
+    nextGroup = group;
+  }
+}
+
+/** The element a text that does not wrap is held together by: the outermost
+ *  one inside the block that does not wrap either. */
+function noWrapGroup(box: Box, block: Box): Box {
+  let group = box;
+  for (let up = box.parent; up && up !== block; up = up.parent) {
+    if (wraps(up.style)) break;
+    group = up;
+  }
+  return group;
+}
+
+/** The bidi controls `unicode-bidi` stands for, opening and closing (CSS
+ *  Writing Modes 3, 2.4.2), in the direction of the box; null for `normal`.
+ *  On a block only an override opens anything: the block's embedding is
+ *  its paragraph's direction. */
+function bidiControls(
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+  block: boolean,
+): [string, string] | null {
+  const rtl = style.direction === 'rtl';
+  const override = rtl ? '\u202E' : '\u202D';
+  switch (style.unicodeBidi) {
+    case 'embed':
+      return [rtl ? '\u202B' : '\u202A', '\u202C'];
+    case 'bidi-override':
+      return [override, '\u202C'];
+    case 'isolate':
+      return [rtl ? '\u2067' : '\u2066', '\u2069'];
+    case 'isolate-override':
+      return block
+        ? [override, '\u202C']
+        : [(rtl ? '\u2067' : '\u2066') + override, '\u202C\u2069'];
+    case 'plaintext':
+      return ['\u2068', '\u2069'];
+    default:
+      return null;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Bidi controls as items of their own, one a unit, at a document index
+ *  none of them takes up. */
+function pushControls(
+  out: Item[],
+  controls: string,
+  box: Box,
+  start: number,
+): void {
+  for (const control of controls) {
+    out.push({
+      kind: 'text',
+      run: runFor(control, box.style),
+      box,
+      length: 1,
+      start,
+      control: true,
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+function hasControls(items: Item[]): boolean {
+  for (const item of items)
+    if (item.kind === 'text' && item.control) return true;
+  return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A text box with `word-spacing`, as runs of its words and of the spaces
+ * between them, each space run carrying the extra as letter spacing: the
+ * engines space letters, not words, and a space's letter spacing is exactly
+ * the room CSS adds after a word separator (16.4 — the space and the
+ * no-break space). Only text that asks for it is split.
+ */
+function wordSpaced(
+  out: Item[],
+  box: Box,
+  run: TextRun,
+  spacing: number,
+): void {
+  const text = box.text;
+  const push = (from: number, to: number, extra: number): void => {
+    if (to <= from) return;
+    out.push({
+      kind: 'text',
+      run: {
+        ...run,
+        text: text.slice(from, to),
+        ...(extra ? { letterSpacing: (run.letterSpacing ?? 0) + extra } : null),
+      },
+      box,
+      length: to - from,
+      start: box.textStart + from,
+    });
+  };
+  let from = 0;
+  for (const m of text.matchAll(/[ \u00A0]+/g)) {
+    push(from, m.index, 0);
+    push(m.index, m.index + m[0].length, spacing);
+    from = m.index + m[0].length;
+  }
+  push(from, text.length, 0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * An inline box's margin, border and padding, resolved onto it — percentages
+ * of the containing block's width, as a block's are — and the widths of its
+ * two edges on the line: the start side's before its first fragment, the
+ * end side's after its last. One with a background or a border to paint
+ * also notes its face's ascent and descent, the height CSS paints them over
+ * (10.6.1, the content area), so paint needs no font.
+ */
+function inlineEdges(
+  box: Box,
+  width: number,
+  fonts: FontsLike | null,
+): [number, number] {
+  const s = box.style;
+  box.borderTop = usedBorder(s.borderTopWidth, s.borderTopStyle);
+  box.borderRight = usedBorder(s.borderRightWidth, s.borderRightStyle);
+  box.borderBottom = usedBorder(s.borderBottomWidth, s.borderBottomStyle);
+  box.borderLeft = usedBorder(s.borderLeftWidth, s.borderLeftStyle);
+  box.padTop = resolve(s.paddingTop, width);
+  box.padRight = resolve(s.paddingRight, width);
+  box.padBottom = resolve(s.paddingBottom, width);
+  box.padLeft = resolve(s.paddingLeft, width);
+  box.marginLeft = resolve(s.marginLeft, width);
+  box.marginRight = resolve(s.marginRight, width);
+  if (box.cut) {
+    // a piece of a box broken around a block has no edge where it was cut
+    const rtl = s.direction === 'rtl';
+    if (box.cut & (rtl ? 2 : 1)) {
+      box.marginLeft = box.borderLeft = box.padLeft = 0;
+    }
+    if (box.cut & (rtl ? 1 : 2)) {
+      box.marginRight = box.borderRight = box.padRight = 0;
+    }
+  }
+  box.decoration = inlineDecoration(fonts, box, s);
+  const left = box.marginLeft + box.borderLeft + box.padLeft;
+  const right = box.padRight + box.borderRight + box.marginRight;
+  return s.direction === 'rtl' ? [right, left] : [left, right];
+}
+
+/**
+ * What an inline box draws around its text, in `s`: the extent of its face
+ * where it has a background, a border or an outline, and null where it
+ * draws none. Its borders are the ones `inlineEdges` just used. Shared with
+ * a pointer move that gives a link a background (`HtmlViewNode`).
+ */
+export function inlineDecoration(
+  fonts: FontsLike | null,
+  box: Box,
+  s: ComputedStyle,
+): InlineDecoration | null {
+  const decorated =
+    !isTransparent(s.backgroundColor) ||
+    box.borderTop + box.borderRight + box.borderBottom + box.borderLeft > 0 ||
+    s.outlineStyle !== 'none';
+  return !decorated ? null : fonts ? faceExtent(fonts, s) : NO_EXTENT;
 }
 
-/** The `TextRun` one styled piece of text becomes. */
-function runFor(
-  text: string,
+/** A border's width, or none where its style draws none. */
+function usedBorder(
+  width: number,
+  style: ComputedStyle['borderTopStyle'],
+): number {
+  return style === 'none' || style === 'hidden' ? 0 : width;
+}
+
+/** A face's ascent and descent at a style's size, kept per font manager
+ *  and shared by the boxes set in it: by the style, which the cascade
+ *  shares between every element of a kind, and by the face, which styles
+ *  that differ in anything else share. */
+const FACE_EXTENTS = new WeakMap<
+  FontsLike,
+  {
+    byStyle: WeakMap<ComputedStyle, InlineDecoration>;
+    byFace: Map<string, InlineDecoration>;
+  }
+>();
+
+/** The extent of a decorated box where there are no fonts to ask. */
+const NO_EXTENT: InlineDecoration = { ascent: 0, descent: 0 };
+
+/** A style's face's ascent and descent, which an inline box's background
+ *  is painted over. */
+export function faceExtentOf(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+): InlineDecoration {
+  return faceExtent(fonts, style);
+}
+
+function faceExtent(fonts: FontsLike, style: ComputedStyle): InlineDecoration {
+  let cache = FACE_EXTENTS.get(fonts);
+  if (!cache) {
+    cache = { byStyle: new WeakMap(), byFace: new Map() };
+    FACE_EXTENTS.set(fonts, cache);
+  }
+  let extent = cache.byStyle.get(style);
+  if (extent) return extent;
+  const key = `${style.fontFamily}|${style.fontSize}|${style.fontWeight}|${style.fontStyle}`;
+  extent = cache.byFace.get(key);
+  if (!extent) {
+    try {
+      const m = fonts
+        .match(style.fontFamily, {
+          size: style.fontSize,
+          weight: style.fontWeight,
+          style: style.fontStyle,
+        })
+        .metrics(style.fontSize);
+      extent = { ascent: m.ascent, descent: m.descent };
+    } catch {
+      extent = { ascent: style.fontSize * 0.8, descent: style.fontSize * 0.2 };
+    }
+    if (cache.byFace.size > 64) cache.byFace.clear();
+    cache.byFace.set(key, extent);
+  }
+  cache.byStyle.set(style, extent);
+  return extent;
+}
+
+/** A first line in its `::first-line` fonts (`firstLineSetting`). */
+interface FirstLineSetting {
+  /** The content, its text in the styles its boxes have on the line. */
+  items: Item[];
+  base: Record<string, unknown>;
+  lineHeight: number;
+  strut: InlineDecoration | null;
+  lifts: Lifts;
+  justify: LineJustify | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * What a first line is made with where its `::first-line` sets its fonts
+ * (CSS 2.1 5.12.1). Its text is in the styles its boxes have on it — each
+ * element's own rules over what it inherits there, which takes the fonts
+ * from `::first-line` (CSS Pseudo 4, 2.1.2), so a `<small>` is smaller
+ * than the line's font and not than the block's — and it is laid out at
+ * the pseudo-element's line height. The pseudo-element is an inline box
+ * around the line's content, so its face at its line height is on the line
+ * with the block's strut, which stays: a `::first-line` of a smaller line
+ * height leaves the line as tall as the block's.
+ */
+function firstLineSetting(
+  block: Box,
+  items: Item[],
+  how: NonNullable<InlineOptions['firstLineStyle']>,
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  strut: InlineDecoration | null,
+  justify: LineJustify | null,
+): FirstLineSetting {
+  const style = how.style;
+  const of = (box: Box): ComputedStyle =>
+    box === block || !box.parent
+      ? style
+      : styleOnFirstLine(box, of(box.parent), how.styler);
+  const restyled = items.map((item): Item => {
+    if (item.kind !== 'text') return item;
+    const run = restyledRun(item.run, item.box.style, of(item.box));
+    return run === item.run ? item : { ...item, run };
+  });
+  const lineHeight = lineHeightMultiplier(fonts, style);
+  const base = {
+    family: style.fontFamily,
+    size: style.fontSize,
+    weight: style.fontWeight,
+    style: style.fontStyle,
+    color: style.color,
+  };
+  const own = strutOf(fonts, style);
+  return {
+    items: restyled,
+    base,
+    lineHeight,
+    strut: strut && {
+      ascent: Math.max(strut.ascent, own.ascent),
+      descent: Math.max(strut.descent, own.descent),
+    },
+    lifts: new Lifts(fonts, style, of),
+    justify: justify && {
+      ...justify,
+      base,
+      options: { ...justify.options, lineHeight },
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Each box's style on a first line (`FirstLineStyler`), kept for the style
+ * its parent has there: every pass asks again, and a style that is a new
+ * object each time is a new face to every cache that keys on one.
+ */
+const ON_FIRST_LINE = new WeakMap<
+  Box,
+  { parent: ComputedStyle; style: ComputedStyle }
+>();
+
+/** A box's style on a first line, where its parent's there is `parent`. */
+function styleOnFirstLine(
+  box: Box,
+  parent: ComputedStyle,
+  styler: FirstLineStyler,
+): ComputedStyle {
+  const known = ON_FIRST_LINE.get(box);
+  if (known && known.parent === parent) return known.style;
+  const style = styler(box, parent);
+  ON_FIRST_LINE.set(box, { parent, style });
+  return style;
+}
+
+/** What a run takes from its style (`runFor`). */
+const RUN_STYLE = [
+  'family',
+  'size',
+  'weight',
+  'style',
+  'color',
+  'letterSpacing',
+  'features',
+  'underline',
+  'underlineStyle',
+  'underlineOffset',
+  'underlineThickness',
+  'strike',
+] as const;
+
+/**
+ * A run of text in `style` rather than `own`, the style it was made in:
+ * what it has of neither — the room a tab or `word-spacing` adds to its
+ * letter spacing, a `nowrap` group, where its shaping is broken — kept.
+ */
+function restyledRun(
+  run: TextRun,
+  own: ComputedStyle,
   style: ComputedStyle,
-  owner: Element | null,
 ): TextRun {
-  // ntk hands unknown span fields back on the laid-out runs untouched, which
-  // is how the element reaches the paint and hit-test passes without a
-  // parallel structure to keep in step.
-  const run: TextRun & { element?: Element } = {
+  if (style === own) return run;
+  const fresh = runFor(run.text, style) as unknown as Record<string, unknown>;
+  const out = { ...run } as unknown as Record<string, unknown>;
+  for (const name of RUN_STYLE) {
+    if (fresh[name] === undefined) delete out[name];
+    else out[name] = fresh[name];
+  }
+  const added = (run.letterSpacing ?? 0) - (own.letterSpacing || 0);
+  if (added) out.letterSpacing = ((out.letterSpacing as number) ?? 0) + added;
+  return out as unknown as TextRun;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The first line's text in its `::first-line` colour: the runs before the
+ * line's end whose colour is the block's own, the one that ends past it cut
+ * there. A run in a colour of its own — a link's — keeps it, as an element
+ * inside the pseudo-element does. Colour moves no glyph, so the lines break
+ * where they did.
+ */
+function firstLineColour(
+  items: Item[],
+  firstLine: { color: string; from: string; end: number },
+): void {
+  for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i += 1) {
+    const item = items[i];
+    if (item.kind !== 'text') continue;
+    // past the line: a run in a colour of its own may have been the one
+    // across its end, so this is where the walk stops, not at the cut
+    if (item.start >= firstLine.end) break;
+    if (item.run.color !== firstLine.from) continue;
+    const cut = firstLine.end - item.start;
+    if (cut < item.length) {
+      items.splice(i + 1, 0, {
+        ...item,
+        run: { ...item.run, text: item.run.text.slice(cut) },
+        start: item.start + cut,
+        length: item.length - cut,
+      });
+      items[i] = {
+        ...item,
+        run: {
+          ...item.run,
+          text: item.run.text.slice(0, cut),
+          color: firstLine.color,
+        },
+        length: cut,
+      };
+      break;
+    }
+    items[i] = { ...item, run: { ...item.run, color: firstLine.color } };
+  }
+}
+
+/** The `TextRun` one styled piece of text becomes: its text, and what paint
+ *  needs of its style — nothing that names a box or an element, so that a
+ *  layout made from it can be kept for the next parse (`TextLayoutCache`). */
+/**
+ * A text box's text as it is laid out. `pre` keeps its spaces whole: none
+ * is broken after, and none hangs at a line's end, where a trailing space
+ * counts in the line's width. Laid out, they are no-break spaces, as wide
+ * and as many, so every offset holds (CSS Text 3, 4.1.3). Kept per box: a
+ * pass makes no new string, and the kept layouts find their text by
+ * identity before they compare it.
+ */
+/**
+ * Tabs a `white-space` keeps, set at their stops (CSS Text 3, 4.2): a stop
+ * every `tab-size` spaces of the block's font from the line's start, and a
+ * tab that would reach one less than half a `ch` on goes to the next.
+ * Neither engine has them — ntk draws a tab a space wide, and CoreText
+ * sets it at stops of its own every 28 points — so a tab is laid out as a
+ * space spaced out to its stop: text as the engine sees it and not as the
+ * document holds it, the way `heldText` holds a `pre`'s spaces. Where each
+ * tab starts is read off one layout of the paragraph with its tabs as
+ * spaces, and its inline boxes' edges and its atomics as the room they
+ * take, unwrapped: a line `pre-wrap` wraps sets the tabs after the wrap as
+ * though it had not, and a right-to-left one sets them a space wide.
+ *
+ * Read off each tab's run, which the tab is given of its own, and not off
+ * a caret: CoreText puts a caret after a spaced glyph part of the way
+ * into its spacing, so a tab after `word-spacing` was set from a place
+ * half the spacing short of where it is drawn.
+ */
+function setTabs(
+  items: Item[],
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  block: ComputedStyle,
+  indent: number,
+): void {
+  // the paragraph as it will be laid out, an inline box's edges and an
+  // atomic as the room they take, each tab a run of its own, and where
+  // each text item starts in it
+  const runs: TextRun[] = [];
+  const starts = new Map<Item, number>();
+  const tabs = new Set<number>();
+  let units = 0;
+  for (const item of items) {
+    // a float is beside the line, and takes none of it
+    if (item.kind === 'float') continue;
+    if (item.kind !== 'text') {
+      const box = item.box;
+      runs.push(
+        spacerRun(
+          fonts,
+          block,
+          item.kind === 'edge'
+            ? item.width
+            : box.width + box.marginLeft + box.marginRight,
+        ),
+      );
+      units += 1;
+      continue;
+    }
+    starts.set(item, units);
+    const text = item.run.text;
+    if (item.control || !text.includes('\t')) {
+      runs.push(item.run);
+      units += text.length;
+      continue;
+    }
+    let done = 0;
+    for (let p = text.indexOf('\t'); p >= 0; p = text.indexOf('\t', p + 1)) {
+      if (p > done) runs.push({ ...item.run, text: text.slice(done, p) });
+      // spaced a hair apart from its neighbours, which an engine that
+      // merges runs alike (CoreText) would otherwise take it into
+      tabs.add(units + p);
+      runs.push({
+        ...item.run,
+        text: spaceIn(item.box),
+        letterSpacing: (item.run.letterSpacing ?? 0) + tabs.size * HAIR,
+      });
+      done = p + 1;
+    }
+    if (done < text.length) runs.push({ ...item.run, text: text.slice(done) });
+    units += text.length;
+  }
+  const natural = fonts.layout(runs, fontOf(block), {
+    direction: block.direction,
+  });
+  /** Where each tab starts, by its place in the layout's text. */
+  const found = new Map<number, { x: number; line: number }>();
+  natural.lines.forEach((line, i) => {
+    for (const run of line.runs ?? []) {
+      if (tabs.has(run.start))
+        found.set(run.start, { x: line.x + run.x, line: i });
+    }
+  });
+  let offsets: number[] | null | undefined;
+  const space =
+    advanceOf(fonts, fontOf(block), ' ') +
+    block.letterSpacing +
+    block.wordSpacing;
+  const every = block.tabSizeIsLength ? block.tabSize : block.tabSize * space;
+  const half = advanceOf(fonts, fontOf(block), '0') / 2;
+  const rtl = block.direction === 'rtl';
+  /** The room tabs have added to each line so far. */
+  const added = new Map<number, number>();
+  const next: Item[] = [];
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (item.kind !== 'text' || item.control || !item.run.text.includes('\t')) {
+      next.push(item);
+      continue;
+    }
+    const text = item.run.text;
+    const at = starts.get(item)!;
+    // what the space a tab is laid out as takes before it is spaced out
+    const own =
+      advanceOf(fonts, item.run, spaceIn(item.box)) +
+      (item.run.letterSpacing ?? 0);
+    const piece = (start: number, end: number, run: TextRun): void => {
+      next.push({
+        ...item,
+        run,
+        length: end - start,
+        start: item.start + start,
+      });
+    };
+    let done = 0;
+    for (let p = text.indexOf('\t'); p >= 0; p = text.indexOf('\t', p + 1)) {
+      if (p > done) piece(done, p, { ...item.run, text: text.slice(done, p) });
+      let advance = own;
+      if (!rtl) {
+        const unit = at + p;
+        let caret = found.get(unit);
+        if (!caret) {
+          // an engine that says nothing of its runs has a caret to go by
+          if (offsets === undefined) {
+            const joined = runs.map((run) => run.text).join('');
+            offsets = /[\uD800-\uDFFF]/.test(joined)
+              ? codeUnitOffsets(joined)
+              : null;
+          }
+          caret = natural.caretPosition(
+            offsets ? codePointAt(offsets, unit) : unit,
+          );
+        }
+        const before = added.get(caret.line) ?? 0;
+        const x = caret.x + before + (caret.line === 0 ? indent : 0);
+        if (every > 0) {
+          let stop = (Math.floor(x / every) + 1) * every;
+          if (stop - x < half) stop += every;
+          advance = stop - x;
+        } else advance = 0;
+        added.set(caret.line, before + advance - own);
+      }
+      piece(p, p + 1, {
+        ...item.run,
+        text: spaceIn(item.box),
+        letterSpacing: (item.run.letterSpacing ?? 0) + advance - own,
+      });
+      done = p + 1;
+    }
+    if (done < text.length) {
+      piece(done, text.length, { ...item.run, text: text.slice(done) });
+    }
+  }
+  items.splice(0, items.length, ...next);
+}
+
+/** The space a tab in a box is laid out as: a `pre`'s spaces are held
+ *  together (`heldText`), and so are its tabs. */
+function spaceIn(box: Box): string {
+  return box.style.whiteSpace === 'pre' ? '\u00a0' : ' ';
+}
+
+/** A text's font, the part of a run a character's advance depends on. */
+type Face = Pick<TextRun, 'family' | 'size' | 'weight' | 'style'>;
+
+/** A block's font, as its runs name it (`runFor`). */
+function fontOf(style: ComputedStyle): Face {
+  return {
+    family: style.fontFamily,
+    size: style.fontSize,
+    weight: style.fontWeight,
+    style: style.fontStyle === 'normal' ? 'normal' : 'italic',
+  };
+}
+
+/** One character's advance in a font, kept per font manager. */
+function advanceOf(fonts: FontsLike, font: Face, char: string): number {
+  let kept = ADVANCES.get(fonts);
+  if (!kept) ADVANCES.set(fonts, (kept = new Map()));
+  const key = `${font.family}|${font.size}|${font.weight}|${font.style}|${char}`;
+  let advance = kept.get(key);
+  if (advance === undefined) {
+    const face: Face = {
+      family: font.family,
+      size: font.size,
+      weight: font.weight,
+      style: font.style,
+    };
+    // between two letters, so that no engine drops it as a line's end
+    advance =
+      fonts.layout([{ ...face, text: `x${char}x` }], face, {}).width -
+      fonts.layout([{ ...face, text: 'xx' }], face, {}).width;
+    kept.set(key, advance);
+  }
+  return advance;
+}
+
+const ADVANCES = new WeakMap<FontsLike, Map<string, number>>();
+
+function heldText(box: Box): string {
+  if (box.style.whiteSpace !== 'pre' || !box.text.includes(' ')) {
+    return box.text;
+  }
+  let held = HELD.get(box);
+  if (held === undefined) {
+    held = box.text.replace(/ /g, '\u00a0');
+    HELD.set(box, held);
+  }
+  return held;
+}
+
+const HELD = new WeakMap<Box, string>();
+
+/**
+ * The OpenType features a style's text is shaped with: the `font-variant`
+ * longhands' and `font-kerning`'s, then `font-feature-settings`, which has
+ * the last word (CSS Fonts 3, 7.2). One object for each set of them, kept,
+ * because a run's fields are compared by identity — a new object a pass
+ * would find no layout the last pass made.
+ */
+export function featuresOf(
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+): Readonly<Record<string, number>> | null {
+  const {
+    fontKerning: kerning,
+    fontVariantLigatures: ligatures,
+    fontVariantNumeric: numeric,
+    fontVariantCaps: caps,
+    fontVariantPosition: position,
+    fontFeatureSettings: settings,
+  } = style;
+  if (!kerning && !ligatures && !numeric && !caps && !position && !settings) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const key = `${kerning}|${ligatures}|${numeric}|${caps}|${position}|${settings}`;
+  let features = FEATURES.get(key);
+  if (!features) {
+    const out: Record<string, number> = {};
+    for (const part of [
+      kerning,
+      ligatures,
+      numeric,
+      caps,
+      position,
+      settings,
+    ]) {
+      if (!part) continue;
+      for (const pair of part.split(',')) {
+        const at = pair.indexOf('=');
+        out[pair.slice(0, at)] = Number(pair.slice(at + 1));
+      }
+    }
+    features = Object.freeze(out);
+    FEATURES.set(key, features);
+  }
+  return features;
+}
+
+const FEATURES = new Map<string, Readonly<Record<string, number>>>();
+
+/** A run of `text` in `style`: its face, its ink and its rules. Every
+ *  paint field of a run of the document's text is this function's, which
+ *  is what lets a pointer move re-ink a paragraph without laying it out
+ *  again (`HtmlViewNode._hoverInPlace`). */
+export function runFor(text: string, style: ComputedStyle): TextRun {
+  const run: TextRun = {
     text,
     family: style.fontFamily,
     size: style.fontSize,
     weight: style.fontWeight,
     style: style.fontStyle === 'normal' ? 'normal' : 'italic',
-    color: style.color,
+    // the glyphs' fill, which `-webkit-text-fill-color` sets apart from
+    // `color` — the decorations keep `color`
+    color:
+      style.textFillColor === null
+        ? style.color
+        : inkColor(style.textFillColor, style.color),
+    // set here, and made true later for an inline box's text (`collect`):
+    // added to a run after it was made, it gave the runs of a document two
+    // shapes where the layout cache compares them, and a pass over 600 KB
+    // took 3 ms longer finding every paragraph's layout again
+    shapeApart: false,
   };
-  // An inline background fills the line box rather than hugging the ink:
-  // `<span style="background: yellow">` is a highlighter, and two adjacent
-  // highlighted spans must not leave a seam between them. That is exactly
-  // what richtext's `bgFill: 'line'` was added for.
-  if (!isTransparent(style.backgroundColor)) {
-    run.bg = inkColor(style.backgroundColor as string, style.color);
-    run.bgFill = 'line';
-  }
-  if (owner) run.element = owner;
-  if (style.textDecorationLine === 'underline') {
-    run.underline = inkColor(
-      style.textDecorationColor ?? 'currentColor',
-      style.color,
-    );
+  if (style.letterSpacing) run.letterSpacing = style.letterSpacing;
+  const features = featuresOf(style);
+  if (features) run.features = features;
+  // Hidden text keeps its place on the line and draws nothing, rules
+  // included, and the text of a visible element inside it is its own run
+  // (CSS 2.1 11.2): drawn in no ink, it is laid out as it was
+  if (style.visibility !== 'visible') {
+    run.color = 'transparent';
+    return run;
+  }
+  // A background is not the run's: the inline box it belongs to paints it,
+  // behind every fragment of the box — nested elements' text included — and
+  // out to its padding (`paintInlineBoxes`).
+  // the element's own decorations and the ones propagated to it, in the
+  // colours of the elements that set them (`decorate`)
+  if (style.underline) {
+    run.underline = style.underline;
     // CSS's five rule styles and SGR 4's five are the same set under two
     // names; richtext speaks SGR's, so `solid` is `single` and `wavy` is
     // `curly`. The other three are spelled identically.
     run.underlineStyle =
-      style.textDecorationStyle === 'wavy'
+      style.underlineStyle === 'wavy'
         ? 'curly'
-        : style.textDecorationStyle === 'solid'
+        : style.underlineStyle === 'solid'
           ? 'single'
-          : style.textDecorationStyle;
-  } else if (style.textDecorationLine === 'line-through') {
-    run.strike = inkColor(
-      style.textDecorationColor ?? 'currentColor',
-      style.color,
-    );
+          : style.underlineStyle;
+    if (style.underlineOffset !== null) {
+      run.underlineOffset = style.underlineOffset;
+    }
+    if (style.underlineThickness !== null) {
+      run.underlineThickness = style.underlineThickness;
+    }
   }
+  if (style.lineThrough) run.strike = style.lineThrough;
   return run;
 }
 
@@ -712,17 +3422,47 @@ function runFor(
 class SpanMap {
   private _laid: number[] = [];
   private _doc: number[] = [];
+  private _boxes: (Box | null)[] = [];
+  /** Where the laid-out text has a unit that is no text of the document's:
+   *  a spacer, a bidi control. */
+  private _gaps: number[] | null = null;
   laidOut = 0;
 
-  add(documentStart: number, length: number): void {
+  add(documentStart: number, length: number, box: Box | null = null): void {
     this._laid.push(this.laidOut);
     this._doc.push(documentStart);
+    this._boxes.push(box);
+    if (!box) {
+      this._gaps ??= [];
+      for (let i = 0; i < length; i += 1) this._gaps.push(this.laidOut + i);
+    }
     this.laidOut += length;
   }
 
+  /** Give a line's text the gaps in its part of the laid-out text, where
+   *  it has any. Set after the text is made rather than spread into it: a
+   *  spread in an object literal costs every line that has none. */
+  giveGaps(text: LineText, start: number, end: number): void {
+    if (!this._gaps) return;
+    const gaps = this._gaps.filter((at) => at >= start && at < end);
+    if (gaps.length) text.gaps = gaps;
+  }
+
+  /** The text box whose text an offset in the laid-out text is. */
+  boxAt(offset: number): Box | null {
+    const i = this._entryAt(offset);
+    return i < 0 ? null : this._boxes[i];
+  }
+
   documentAt(offset: number): number {
+    const i = this._entryAt(offset);
+    return i < 0 ? 0 : this._doc[i] + (offset - this._laid[i]);
+  }
+
+  /** The entry an offset falls in, or -1 when there are none. */
+  private _entryAt(offset: number): number {
     const laid = this._laid;
-    if (!laid.length) return 0;
+    if (!laid.length) return -1;
     let lo = 0;
     let hi = laid.length - 1;
     while (lo < hi) {
@@ -730,7 +3470,7 @@ class SpanMap {
       if (laid[mid] <= offset) lo = mid;
       else hi = mid - 1;
     }
-    return this._doc[lo] + (offset - laid[lo]);
+    return lo;
   }
 }
 
@@ -751,7 +3491,7 @@ function segmentFrom(items: Item[], index: number, offset: number): Segment {
     if (item.kind !== 'text') break;
     const text = skip > 0 ? item.run.text.slice(skip) : item.run.text;
     if (text) {
-      spans.add(item.box.textStart + skip, text.length);
+      spans.add(item.start + skip, text.length, item.control ? null : item.box);
       runs.push(skip > 0 ? { ...item.run, text } : item.run);
     }
     skip = 0;
@@ -759,6 +3499,10 @@ function segmentFrom(items: Item[], index: number, offset: number): Segment {
   return { runs, spans, nextIndex: i };
 }
 
+/** A text a line may break after where its block wraps: one that ends in
+ *  white space, which a no-break space a `nowrap` element holds is not. */
+const BREAKS_AFTER = /[ \t\n]$/;
+
 /** Move `(index, offset)` forward by `consumed` code units of text. */
 function advance(
   items: Item[],
@@ -784,8 +3528,9 @@ function advance(
 /**
  * One space's advance in a run's style, measured as the difference between
  * `x x` and `xx` — ntk strips a lone trailing space from a line, so it
- * cannot be measured directly. Cached per font manager per style; the
- * measurement itself hits ntk's shaping memo.
+ * cannot be measured directly — plus the run's letter spacing, which a
+ * space takes as every other character does. Cached per font manager per
+ * face; the measurement itself hits ntk's shaping memo.
  */
 const SPACE_ADVANCE = new WeakMap<FontsLike, Map<string, number>>();
 
@@ -795,9 +3540,10 @@ function spaceAdvance(fonts: FontsLike, run: TextRun): number {
     cache = new Map();
     SPACE_ADVANCE.set(fonts, cache);
   }
+  const spacing = run.letterSpacing ?? 0;
   const key = `${run.family}|${run.size}|${run.weight}|${run.style}`;
   const hit = cache.get(key);
-  if (hit !== undefined) return hit;
+  if (hit !== undefined) return hit + spacing;
   const style = {
     family: run.family,
     size: run.size,
@@ -809,7 +3555,124 @@ function spaceAdvance(fonts: FontsLike, run: TextRun): number {
   const advance = Math.max(0, measure('x x') - measure('xx'));
   if (cache.size > 64) cache.clear();
   cache.set(key, advance);
-  return advance;
+  return advance + spacing;
+}
+
+/** Whether the runs' joined text has a forced break just before a
+ *  code-unit offset — a line's end, which an engine counts the break in. */
+function breakBefore(runs: TextRun[], offset: number): boolean {
+  let at = 0;
+  for (const run of runs) {
+    const next = at + run.text.length;
+    if (offset - 1 < next) return run.text.charCodeAt(offset - 1 - at) === 10;
+    at = next;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The white space a text engine strips from a line's end, as a pattern for
+ * the end of a run: spaces and tabs, and the no-break space too where the
+ * engine strips that — ntk to 8.12.9 and CoreText through @windowkit/appkit
+ * 0.15.0 do, where CSS measures it (sidorares/ntk#395, windowkit/appkit#83).
+ * Asked of the engine once per font manager, because what the line adds back
+ * has to be what the engine took: added back after an engine that kept it, a
+ * no-break space before an image counted twice.
+ */
+const HUNG = new WeakMap<FontsLike, RegExp>();
+
+export function hungSpaces(fonts: FontsLike, run: TextRun): RegExp {
+  let hung = HUNG.get(fonts);
+  if (!hung) {
+    const style = { family: run.family, size: run.size };
+    const width = (text: string): number =>
+      fonts.layout([{ ...style, text }], style, {}).lines[0]?.width ?? 0;
+    hung = width('x\u00A0') > width('x') ? /[ \t]+$/ : /[ \t\u00A0]+$/;
+    HUNG.set(fonts, hung);
+  }
+  return hung;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A clamped paragraph with an ellipsis at the end of its last line (CSS
+ * Overflow 4, 4.2): its text up to where that line breaks in the room the
+ * ellipsis leaves it — at a soft wrap opportunity, so the words that do
+ * not fit beside the ellipsis go to the lines the clamp hides, and inside
+ * a word only where the line has no other — and the ellipsis after it, in
+ * the block's own style. The engine's own ellipsis cuts inside the last
+ * word, as `text-overflow` does.
+ */
+function ellipsized(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  items: readonly Extract<Item, { kind: 'text' }>[],
+  runs: TextRun[],
+  base: Record<string, unknown>,
+  options: Parameters<FontsLike['layout']>[2],
+  layout: TextLayoutLike,
+  width: number,
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+): { layout: TextLayoutLike; runs: TextRun[]; spans: SpanMap } {
+  const mark = runFor('\u2026', style);
+  const room = width - fonts.layout([mark], base, {}).width;
+  const last = layout.lines[layout.lines.length - 1];
+  let end = last.end;
+  if (last.width > room) {
+    const probe = fonts.layout(sliceRuns(runs, last.start, last.end), base, {
+      ...options,
+      maxWidth: Math.max(0, room),
+      maxLines: 1,
+      overflow: 'clip',
+      overflowWrap: 'break-word',
+    });
+    end = last.start + (probe.lines[0]?.end ?? 0);
+  }
+  // the text to the break, less the white space the line ends in — an
+  // empty line keeps the break before it, and is the ellipsis alone
+  const line = sliceRuns(runs, last.start, end);
+  let trailing = 0;
+  for (let i = line.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+    const text = line[i].text;
+    const trimmed = text.replace(/[ \t\n\r\f]+$/, '').length;
+    trailing += text.length - trimmed;
+    if (trimmed) break;
+  }
+  const kept = sliceRuns(runs, 0, end - trailing);
+  // and the spans to match, the ellipsis no text of the document's
+  const spans = new SpanMap();
+  let at = items.length ? items[0].start : 0;
+  let left = 0;
+  for (const run of kept) left += run.text.length;
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (left <= 0) break;
+    const length = Math.min(item.run.text.length, left);
+    spans.add(item.start, length, item.control ? null : item.box);
+    left -= length;
+    at = item.start + length;
+  }
+  spans.add(at, 1, null);
+  kept.push(mark);
+  return { layout: fonts.layout(kept, base, options), runs: kept, spans };
+}
+
+/** The runs' text from one code-unit offset into their joined text to
+ *  another, each piece in its own run's style. */
+function sliceRuns(
+  runs: readonly TextRun[],
+  from: number,
+  to: number,
+): TextRun[] {
+  const out: TextRun[] = [];
+  let at = 0;
+  for (const run of runs) {
+    const next = at + run.text.length;
+    if (next > from && at < to) {
+      const text = run.text.slice(Math.max(0, from - at), to - at);
+      out.push(text === run.text ? run : { ...run, text });
+    }
+    at = next;
+    if (at >= to) break;
+  }
+  return out;
 }
 
 /** Whether anything but whitespace lies past a code-unit offset into the
@@ -819,7 +3682,10 @@ function inkBeyond(runs: TextRun[], offset: number): boolean {
   let at = 0;
   for (const run of runs) {
     const next = at + run.text.length;
-    if (next > offset && /\S/.test(run.text.slice(Math.max(0, offset - at)))) {
+    if (
+      next > offset &&
+      /[^ \t\n\r\f]/.test(run.text.slice(Math.max(0, offset - at)))
+    ) {
       return true;
     }
     at = next;
@@ -833,17 +3699,481 @@ function wraps(style: ComputedStyle): boolean {
   return style.whiteSpace !== 'nowrap' && style.whiteSpace !== 'pre';
 }
 
-function alignFor(style: ComputedStyle): string {
-  // ntk has no justification; `start` is closer than a silent left on an RTL
-  // paragraph, and closer than a ragged-right lie about what was drawn.
+/** How much of a line's unused room goes before it: 0 for a line set flush
+ *  left, 1 flush right, ½ centred. `start` and `end` follow the direction;
+ *  `justify` is set as `start`, as `alignFor` sets it. */
+/** How far into the room a line an alignment sets goes: 0 at the left, 1
+ *  at the right; `justify` at the start, since a line not justified is
+ *  set there. */
+function alignShift(
+  align: ComputedStyle['textAlign'] | ComputedStyle['textAlignLast'],
+  rtl: boolean,
+): number {
+  switch (align) {
+    case 'center':
+      return 0.5;
+    case 'right':
+      return 1;
+    case 'left':
+      return 0;
+    case 'end':
+      return rtl ? 0 : 1;
+    default:
+      return rtl ? 1 : 0;
+  }
+}
+
+/** How far a line of a layout moves to where it belongs in its box. */
+type LinePlacer = (line: { x: number; width: number }) => number;
+
+/** The blocks whose lines hold text a box's background shows through. */
+export const CLIPPED_TEXT = new WeakSet<Box>();
+
+/** How each of those blocks' layouts was made, to make it again. */
+const RECORDED = new WeakMap<
+  object,
+  {
+    fonts: FontsLike;
+    content: TextRun[];
+    style: Record<string, unknown>;
+    options: Parameters<FontsLike['layout']>[2];
+  }
+>();
+const RECORDERS = new WeakMap<FontsLike, FontsLike>();
+const INKLESS = new WeakMap<object, TextLayoutLike | null>();
+
+/** The fonts, noting how each layout they make was made. One recorder a
+ *  fonts object, so what is kept per fonts object is kept for it too. */
+function recording(fonts: FontsLike): FontsLike {
+  let recorder = RECORDERS.get(fonts);
+  if (!recorder) {
+    recorder = {
+      layout(content, style, options) {
+        const layout = fonts.layout(content, style, options);
+        RECORDED.set(layout, { fonts, content, style, options });
+        return layout;
+      },
+      match: (family, style) => fonts.match(family, style),
+    };
+    RECORDERS.set(fonts, recorder);
+  }
+  return recorder;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A layout of the same text with no ink of its own, which an engine draws
+ * in the context's fill — a gradient's, for text a background shows
+ * through; the same runs, so the same glyphs where the first put them.
+ * Null for a layout that was not recorded.
+ */
+export function inklessLayout(layout: object): TextLayoutLike | null {
+  let inkless = INKLESS.get(layout);
+  if (inkless !== undefined) return inkless;
+  const made = RECORDED.get(layout);
+  inkless = made
+    ? made.fonts.layout(
+        made.content.map((run) => ({ ...run, color: undefined })),
+        { ...made.style, color: undefined },
+        made.options,
+      )
+    : null;
+  INKLESS.set(layout, inkless);
+  return inkless;
+}
+
+/** Whether any of a block's text is text a background shows through. */
+function clipsText(block: Box, items: Item[]): boolean {
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (item.kind === 'text' && !item.control && clipBoxOf(item.box, block)) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+/** The box whose background a text box's glyphs show: the nearest element
+ *  box from it up to the block its lines are in with `background-clip:
+ *  text`, or null. */
+export function clipBoxOf(box: Box | null, block: Box): Box | null {
+  for (let at = box; at; at = at.parent) {
+    if (at.kind !== 'text' && at.style.backgroundClipText) return at;
+    if (at === block) break;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/** The most lines `text-wrap: balance` evens out, as in Chrome: a heading,
+ *  a caption, a pull quote — not a paragraph, whose last line is its own. */
+const BALANCE_LINES = 6;
+
+/**
+ * The narrowest width a paragraph's text breaks into no more lines than
+ * `layout` has (CSS Text 4, 6.2), found by halving the width between the
+ * least that could hold them — their widths over their number — and the
+ * width it was laid out at. The engine breaks the lines, so each step
+ * asks it; eight steps come to within a pixel of the answer for a heading
+ * across a page.
+ */
+function balancedWidth(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  runs: TextRun[],
+  base: Record<string, unknown>,
+  options: Parameters<FontsLike['layout']>[2],
+  width: number,
+  layout: TextLayoutLike,
+): number {
+  const count = layout.lines.length;
+  let total = 0;
+  for (const line of layout.lines) total += line.width;
+  let lo = total / count;
+  let hi = width;
+  for (let step = 0; step < 8 && hi - lo > 1; step += 1) {
+    const mid = (lo + hi) / 2;
+    const probe = fonts.layout(runs, base, { ...options, maxWidth: mid });
+    if (probe.lines.length <= count) hi = mid;
+    else lo = mid;
+  }
+  return Math.ceil(hi);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Where `text-align` puts the lines of a layout that was given no width to
+ * align them in — text that does not wrap, which has no `maxWidth` — as how
+ * far each moves: the engine aligns those lines within the widest of them,
+ * which for a single line is no alignment at all, so a centred `<td
+ * nowrap>` or a `white-space: nowrap` button label was set flush left. A
+ * line too long for its box is set at its start, overflowing its end (CSS
+ * Text 3, 7.1), which is its left in a right-to-left paragraph, as in
+ * Blink. Null where every line is already where it belongs: flush left in
+ * a left-to-right paragraph, or measured for a width it has not been given.
+ */
+/** How the lines of a layout made with no width to fill are placed in
+ *  the room: each is its text's last or a forced break's, and takes
+ *  `text-align-last`, but where `last` is false — a balanced paragraph's,
+ *  laid out narrower than its room. */
+function unwrappedPlacer(
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+  width: number,
+  last = true,
+): LinePlacer | null {
+  const rtl = style.direction === 'rtl';
+  const shift = alignShift(last ? lastAlignOf(style) : style.textAlign, rtl);
+  if ((shift === 0 && !rtl) || !Number.isFinite(width)) return null;
+  return (line) => {
+    const free = width - line.width;
+    return (free >= 0 ? free * shift : rtl ? free : 0) - line.x;
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The spacing a space is given to be laid out as one that may be spaced
+ * apart, too little to move a glyph. It is not nothing, because neither
+ * engine measures a space that is a spaced run of its own as it measures
+ * the same space inside its run: ntk shapes each run apart, so the kerning
+ * pair a space made with the letter beside it is gone (Arial's `A` and
+ * `T` have them), and CoreText spaces a glyph with its kerning attribute,
+ * which takes the place of the font's pairs. A line justified from a
+ * measure of its spaces as they were came out wider than its box and
+ * broke a word early: on macOS, in Helvetica, half of a paragraph did.
+ */
+const HAIR = 1e-6;
+
+/** The runs with each space a run of its own, spaced a hair apart. */
+function spacedApart(runs: TextRun[]): TextRun[] {
+  const out: TextRun[] = [];
+  for (const run of runs) {
+    const text = run.text;
+    let piece = 0;
+    for (let at = 0; at < text.length; at += 1) {
+      const c = text.charCodeAt(at);
+      if (c !== 0x20 && c !== 0xa0) continue;
+      if (at > piece) out.push({ ...run, text: text.slice(piece, at) });
+      out.push({
+        ...run,
+        text: text[at],
+        letterSpacing: (run.letterSpacing ?? 0) + HAIR,
+      });
+      piece = at + 1;
+    }
+    if (piece === 0) out.push(run);
+    else if (piece < text.length) out.push({ ...run, text: text.slice(piece) });
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * `text-align: justify` (CSS Text 3, 7.4), as neither engine has it: the
+ * paragraph's runs again, with each space inside a line that is to be
+ * justified widened by its share of what the line leaves of `width` — the
+ * `letter-spacing` a `word-spacing` is drawn with — so the same breaks fill
+ * their lines. A line that is the paragraph's last, or that a forced break
+ * ends, is not justified, nor one with no space inside it; the spaces a
+ * line ends on hang, and take no share. `skip` is the offsets of spaces
+ * that are no word separators — an inline box's edge laid out as a spacer
+ * (`layoutSpaced`) — which take no share either. Null where no line is
+ * justified.
+ */
+function justifiedRuns(
+  runs: TextRun[],
+  layout: TextLayoutLike,
+  width: number,
+  rest = true,
+  last = false,
+  skip?: ReadonlySet<number>,
+): TextRun[] | null {
+  const text = runs.map((run) => run.text).join('');
+  // each space's extra, by its offset in the paragraph
+  const extra = new Map<number, number>();
+  const lines = layout.lines;
+  for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i += 1) {
+    const line = lines[i];
+    let end = line.end;
+    // the paragraph's last line, or one a forced break ends, is
+    // `text-align-last`'s to justify
+    const ends =
+      i === lines.length - 1 || text[end - 1] === '\n' || text[end] === '\n';
+    if (!(ends ? last : rest)) continue;
+    while (
+      end > line.start &&
+      (text[end - 1] === ' ' ||
+        text[end - 1] === '\u00a0' ||
+        !!skip?.has(end - 1))
+    )
+      end -= 1;
+    const spaces: number[] = [];
+    for (let at = line.start; at < end; at += 1) {
+      if ((text[at] === ' ' || text[at] === '\u00a0') && !skip?.has(at)) {
+        spaces.push(at);
+      }
+    }
+    // a hair short, so that the engine breaks where it did
+    const slack = width - line.width - 0.01;
+    if (!spaces.length || !(slack > 0)) continue;
+    for (const at of spaces) extra.set(at, slack / spaces.length);
+  }
+  return extra.size ? widenedAt(runs, extra) : null;
+}
+
+/** The runs with the character at each offset of `extra` a run of its
+ *  own, spaced that much more. */
+function widenedAt(runs: TextRun[], extra: Map<number, number>): TextRun[] {
+  const text = runs.map((run) => run.text).join('');
+  const out: TextRun[] = [];
+  let from = 0;
+  for (const run of runs) {
+    const end = from + run.text.length;
+    let piece = from;
+    for (let at = from; at < end; at += 1) {
+      const add = extra.get(at);
+      if (add === undefined) continue;
+      if (at > piece) out.push({ ...run, text: text.slice(piece, at) });
+      out.push({
+        ...run,
+        text: text[at],
+        letterSpacing: (run.letterSpacing ?? 0) + add,
+      });
+      piece = at + 1;
+    }
+    if (end > piece) out.push({ ...run, text: text.slice(piece, end) });
+    from = end;
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** A word separator, as justification spaces them out (CSS Text 3, 7.4):
+ *  a space, or a no-break one. */
+function isSeparator(code: number): boolean {
+  return code === 0x20 || code === 0xa0;
+}
+
+/** What `finishLine` lays a justified line's text out again with. */
+interface LineJustify {
+  fonts: FontsLike;
+  base: Record<string, unknown>;
+  options: Parameters<FontsLike['layout']>[2];
+}
+
+/**
+ * A line made a piece at a time — beside a float, around an inline-block,
+ * between an inline box's edges — justified where it is (CSS Text 3, 7.4):
+ * the room it leaves, `free`, shared out equally among its word
+ * separators, as `justifiedRuns` shares out a paragraph's. A space inside a
+ * piece of text takes its share as letter spacing, the piece laid out again
+ * with it; a space a piece ends on, with something after it on the line,
+ * takes it as room before what follows. The spaces the line ends on hang
+ * (7.3), whatever inline box closes after them, and take none. Whatever
+ * follows a share on the line moves over by it. How much wider the line
+ * is.
+ */
+function justifyLine(open: OpenLine, free: number, how: LineJustify): number {
+  const order = open.order;
+  let lastContent = -1;
+  for (let i = order.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
+    if (order[i].kind !== 'edge') {
+      lastContent = i;
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+  const plans = new Map<
+    LineText,
+    { runs: TextRun[]; inside: number[]; after: number }
+  >();
+  let count = 0;
+  for (let i = 0; i < order.length; i += 1) {
+    const placed = order[i];
+    if (placed.kind !== 'text') continue;
+    const text = placed.item;
+    // the runs it was laid out from, where they are still what is kept
+    // (a selection keeps its offsets in their place)
+    const kept = LAYOUT_RUNS.get(text.layout);
+    const runs =
+      kept?.length && typeof kept[0] !== 'number' ? (kept as TextRun[]) : null;
+    const line = text.layout.lines[text.layoutLine];
+    if (!runs || !line) continue;
+    const all = runs.map((run) => run.text).join('');
+    let end = line.end;
+    while (end > line.start && isSeparator(all.charCodeAt(end - 1))) end -= 1;
+    const inside: number[] = [];
+    for (let at = line.start; at < end; at += 1) {
+      if (isSeparator(all.charCodeAt(at))) inside.push(at);
+    }
+    // the spaces it ends on, before what follows it on the line
+    let after = 0;
+    if (i < lastContent) {
+      for (let at = end; at < all.length; at += 1) {
+        if (!isSeparator(all.charCodeAt(at))) break;
+        after += 1;
+      }
+    }
+    count += inside.length + after;
+    plans.set(text, { runs, inside, after });
+  }
+  if (!count) return 0;
+  const share = free / count;
+  let moved = 0;
+  for (const placed of order) {
+    if (placed.kind !== 'text') {
+      placed.item.x += moved;
+      continue;
+    }
+    const text = placed.item;
+    text.drawX += moved;
+    const plan = plans.get(text);
+    if (!plan) continue;
+    if (plan.inside.length) {
+      const line = text.layout.lines[text.layoutLine];
+      const widened = widenedAt(
+        plan.runs,
+        new Map(plan.inside.map((at) => [at, share])),
+      );
+      // as wide as the piece is to be, and the piece alone: the text after
+      // it did not fit beside it before it was any wider
+      const layout = how.fonts.layout(widened, how.base, {
+        ...how.options,
+        maxWidth: line.width + plan.inside.length * share + 0.5,
+        maxLines: 1,
+      });
+      const first = layout.lines[0];
+      if (first && first.start === line.start && first.end === line.end) {
+        LAYOUT_RUNS.set(layout, widened);
+        text.layout = layout;
+        text.layoutLine = 0;
+        moved += first.width - line.width;
+      }
+    }
+    moved += plan.after * share;
+  }
+  return moved;
+}
+
+/** Which of a paragraph's lines are justified (CSS Text 3, 7.4): those
+ *  its end or a forced break does not end, where `text-align` is
+ *  `justify`, and those it does, where `text-align-last` is — neither
+ *  where the text does not wrap, nor under `text-justify: none`. */
+function justification(style: ComputedStyle): { rest: boolean; last: boolean } {
+  const on = wraps(style) && style.textJustify !== 'none';
+  return {
+    rest: on && style.textAlign === 'justify',
+    last: on && lastAlignOf(style) === 'justify',
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * A layout of `runs` whose justified lines fill `width`: measured as it
+ * will be drawn, its spaces spaced apart (`HAIR`), then laid out again with
+ * each space inside a justified line widened by its share
+ * (`justifiedRuns`), which keeps the lines where they broke. The layout
+ * that is given where no line is to be justified. Every path that lays a
+ * paragraph out as one layout justifies through this, so that a paragraph
+ * is justified whichever it took.
+ */
+function justifiedLayout(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  runs: TextRun[],
+  base: Record<string, unknown>,
+  options: Parameters<FontsLike['layout']>[2],
+  layout: TextLayoutLike,
+  width: number,
+  { rest, last }: { rest: boolean; last: boolean },
+  skip?: ReadonlySet<number>,
+): { layout: TextLayoutLike; runs: TextRun[] } {
+  if (
+    !Number.isFinite(width) ||
+    !((rest && layout.lines.length > 1) || (last && layout.lines.length > 0))
+  ) {
+    return { layout, runs };
+  }
+  const spaced = spacedApart(runs);
+  const measured = fonts.layout(spaced, base, options);
+  const justified = justifiedRuns(spaced, measured, width, rest, last, skip);
+  const out = justified ? fonts.layout(justified, base, options) : measured;
+  const outRuns = justified ?? spaced;
+  LAYOUT_RUNS.set(out, outRuns);
+  return { layout: out, runs: outRuns };
+}
+
+/** An alignment as the text engine takes it. It has no justification:
+ *  `start` is closer than a silent left on an RTL paragraph, and closer
+ *  than a ragged-right lie about what was drawn — justified lines are
+ *  spaced to fill their width before they get here (`justifiedRuns`). */
+function engineAlign(
+  align: ComputedStyle['textAlign'] | ComputedStyle['textAlignLast'],
+): string {
+  return align === 'justify' || align === 'auto' ? 'start' : align;
+}
+
+/** How the lines the text or a forced break ends are aligned (CSS Text 3,
+ *  7.2): `text-align-last`, or where that is `auto`, `text-align`, but
+ *  `justify`'s, which leaves them at the start. */
+function lastAlignOf(
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+): Exclude<ComputedStyle['textAlignLast'], 'auto'> {
+  const last = style.textAlignLast;
+  if (last !== 'auto') return last;
   return style.textAlign === 'justify' ? 'start' : style.textAlign;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The `text-indent` a block's first line takes: none where that line is
+ * not its element's first formatted line (CSS 2.1 16.1). An anonymous
+ * block's is only where the block is its parent's first child: the text
+ * after a `<div>` in a `<span>`, or after a paragraph in a `<div>`, starts
+ * a line of no indent.
+ */
+function blockIndent(block: Box, width: number): number {
+  if (!block.el && block.parent && block.parent.children[0] !== block) {
+    return 0;
+  }
+  return indentOf(block.style, width);
+}
+
 function indentOf(style: ComputedStyle, width: number): number {
   const indent = style.textIndent;
   if (typeof indent === 'number') return indent;
   if (indent === 'auto') return 0;
-  return Number.isFinite(width) ? (indent.pct / 100) * width : 0;
+  // of zero where the width is not known yet, as when measuring the
+  // content's width: a `calc()` keeps its pixels (CSS Sizing 3 5.2.1)
+  return resolve(indent, Number.isFinite(width) ? width : 0);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -854,37 +4184,458 @@ function indentOf(style: ComputedStyle, width: number): number {
  * rather than passing the CSS number through is the difference between
  * `line-height: 1.5` meaning 1.5 × 16px and it meaning 1.5 × 19px, which is
  * a visibly looser document than the author asked for.
+ *
+ * `line-height: 0` is legal and means what it says — lines of no height,
+ * the glyphs overflowing evenly — and ntk's half-leading does exactly that
+ * with a multiplier of 0. The floor is a hair above it rather than the 0.1
+ * it was, which set such lines a tenth of a line apart: the Cocoa engine
+ * takes a zero multiple for none at all.
  */
-function lineHeightMultiplier(fonts: FontsLike, style: ComputedStyle): number {
+export function lineHeightMultiplier(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+): number {
   if (style.lineHeight === 'normal') return 1;
   const target = style.lineHeightIsLength
     ? (style.lineHeight as number)
     : (style.lineHeight as number) * style.fontSize;
   const natural = naturalLineHeight(fonts, style);
   if (!natural) return 1;
-  return Math.max(0.1, target / natural);
+  return Math.max(1e-4, target / natural);
 }
 
+/**
+ * The font's natural line height in a style, which CSS's number form is
+ * converted against. Kept per font manager per style, like a space's
+ * advance: a pass asks once a paragraph — 8,800 times at 600 KB — and on
+ * CoreText every answer was a call to the native side. Found by the style
+ * object first, as `faceExtent` is: the paragraphs of a pass share their
+ * styles, and spelling a face into a string key for each was a millisecond
+ * of every pass over a long document.
+ */
+const NATURAL_LINE_HEIGHT = new WeakMap<
+  FontsLike,
+  { byStyle: WeakMap<ComputedStyle, number>; byFace: Map<string, number> }
+>();
+
 function naturalLineHeight(fonts: FontsLike, style: ComputedStyle): number {
+  let cache = NATURAL_LINE_HEIGHT.get(fonts);
+  if (!cache) {
+    cache = { byStyle: new WeakMap(), byFace: new Map() };
+    NATURAL_LINE_HEIGHT.set(fonts, cache);
+  }
+  const known = cache.byStyle.get(style);
+  if (known !== undefined) return known;
+  const key = `${style.fontFamily}|${style.fontSize}|${style.fontWeight}|${style.fontStyle}`;
+  let height = cache.byFace.get(key);
+  if (height === undefined) {
+    try {
+      const font = fonts.match(style.fontFamily, {
+        size: style.fontSize,
+        weight: style.fontWeight,
+        style: style.fontStyle,
+      });
+      height = font.metrics(style.fontSize).lineHeight;
+    } catch {
+      height = style.fontSize * 1.2;
+    }
+    if (cache.byFace.size > 64) cache.byFace.clear();
+    cache.byFace.set(key, height);
+  }
+  cache.byStyle.set(style, height);
+  return height;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A block's strut: the ascent and descent of a line of nothing in its face,
+ * the half-leading its `line-height` adds shared above and below, as the
+ * text engines set a line (CSS 2.1 10.8.1).
+ */
+export function strutOf(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+): InlineDecoration {
+  // text set at no size takes no room, and CoreText reads a size of 0 as
+  // its default twelve points
+  if (!(style.fontSize > 0)) return NO_EXTENT;
+  const face = faceExtent(fonts, style);
+  const target =
+    style.lineHeight === 'normal'
+      ? naturalLineHeight(fonts, style)
+      : style.lineHeightIsLength
+        ? (style.lineHeight as number)
+        : (style.lineHeight as number) * style.fontSize;
+  const half = (target - face.ascent - face.descent) / 2;
+  return { ascent: face.ascent + half, descent: face.descent + half };
+}
+
+/** Where a text `vertical-align` raised goes on its line. */
+interface Lift {
+  /** How far above the line's baseline its baseline is — above the top
+   *  or bottom box's, under one of those. */
+  raise: number;
+  /** The room its own inline box takes about its baseline. */
+  ascent: number;
+  descent: number;
+  /** A `top` or `bottom` box it is in, aligned with the line box's edge
+   *  rather than with anything's baseline, and the room that box's own
+   *  font takes: its content on the line adds to it (`finishLine`). */
+  edge: {
+    box: Box;
+    to: 'top' | 'bottom';
+    ascent: number;
+    descent: number;
+  } | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The raises `vertical-align` gives a paragraph's inline boxes (CSS 2.1
+ * 10.8.1): each from its parent's baseline, so a box inside a raised box is
+ * raised with it. `sub` and `super` by a fifth and a third of the parent's
+ * font size and a pixel, as browsers set them; `text-top` and `text-bottom`
+ * to the edges of the parent's font; `middle` by its middle to half the
+ * parent's x-height above its baseline; a length by itself and a
+ * percentage of the box's own line height. Worked out once a box a pass.
+ */
+class Lifts {
+  private _boxes = new Map<
+    Box,
+    { raise: number; edge: Box | null; lead: boolean }
+  >();
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly fonts: FontsLike,
+    private readonly block: ComputedStyle,
+    /** A box's style on the lines these are for: its own, or the one it
+     *  has on a first line (`firstLineSetting`). */
+    private readonly styleOf: (box: Box) => ComputedStyle = ownStyle,
+  ) {}
+
+  /** Where a text goes, or null for one that is on the line's baseline and
+   *  in no box with a line height of its own. */
+  of(text: LineText): Lift | null {
+    const owner = text.spans.boxAt?.(text.layoutStart);
+    const parent = owner?.parent;
+    if (!owner || !parent || parent.kind !== 'inline') return null;
+    const { raise, edge, lead } = this._box(parent);
+    if (!raise && !edge && !lead) return null;
+    // the room of every box whose text is in it: no raised box starts or
+    // ends inside a fragment, but one it holds may be set larger
+    const own = { ...strutOf(this.fonts, this.styleOf(owner)) };
+    // and of the inline boxes around it, each about its own baseline: each
+    // is on the line with its line height, which the text's may not reach.
+    // Not only where one sets a line height of its own: a raised `<sup>`
+    // holding a smaller `<a>` — every footnote mark — is as tall on the
+    // line as its own font and line height make it (CSS 2.1 10.8)
+    if (lead || raise) {
+      for (let at: Box | null = parent; at?.kind === 'inline'; at = at.parent) {
+        const box = this._box(at);
+        const room = strutOf(this.fonts, this.styleOf(at));
+        own.ascent = Math.max(own.ascent, room.ascent + box.raise - raise);
+        own.descent = Math.max(own.descent, room.descent - box.raise + raise);
+        if (box.edge === at) break;
+      }
+    }
+    const natural = text.layout.lines[text.layoutLine];
+    let seen = this.styleOf(owner);
+    for (const run of natural?.runs ?? []) {
+      const at = text.spans.boxAt?.(run.start);
+      const style = at && this.styleOf(at);
+      if (!style || style === seen) continue;
+      seen = style;
+      const room = strutOf(this.fonts, style);
+      own.ascent = Math.max(own.ascent, room.ascent);
+      own.descent = Math.max(own.descent, room.descent);
+    }
+    let to: Lift['edge'] = null;
+    if (edge) {
+      const room = strutOf(this.fonts, this.styleOf(edge));
+      to = {
+        box: edge,
+        to: this.styleOf(edge).verticalAlign === 'top' ? 'top' : 'bottom',
+        ascent: room.ascent,
+        descent: room.descent,
+      };
+    }
+    return { raise, ascent: own.ascent, descent: own.descent, edge: to };
+  }
+
+  /** Where an inline box's own room is about the line's baseline — its
+   *  face at its line height, raised as it is — or null for one on the
+   *  baseline, or one the line's edge sets. */
+  ofBox(box: Box): { raise: number; ascent: number; descent: number } | null {
+    const { raise, edge, lead } = this._box(box);
+    if (edge) return null;
+    if (!raise && !lead && !tallerStrut(this.fonts, this.block, box)) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    const room = strutOf(this.fonts, this.styleOf(box));
+    return { raise, ascent: room.ascent, descent: room.descent };
+  }
+
+  /** The `top` or `bottom` box a box is in, itself included, and how far
+   *  its baseline is raised from that box's; null outside one. */
+  edgeOf(box: Box): { edge: Box; raise: number } | null {
+    const lift = this._box(box);
+    return lift.edge ? { edge: lift.edge, raise: lift.raise } : null;
+  }
+
+  private _box(box: Box): { raise: number; edge: Box | null; lead: boolean } {
+    if (box.kind !== 'inline' || !box.parent) return NO_LIFT;
+    const known = this._boxes.get(box);
+    if (known) return known;
+    const va = this.styleOf(box).verticalAlign;
+    const own = ownsLeading(this.fonts, this.block, this.styleOf(box));
+    let lift: { raise: number; edge: Box | null; lead: boolean };
+    if (va === 'top' || va === 'bottom') {
+      // what is in it is raised from its baseline, which the line's edge
+      // sets, whatever is around it
+      lift = { raise: 0, edge: box, lead: own };
+    } else {
+      const up = this._box(box.parent);
+      lift = {
+        raise: up.raise + this._own(box, box.parent),
+        edge: up.edge,
+        lead: own || up.lead,
+      };
+      if (lift.raise && !lift.edge) BOX_RAISES.set(box, lift.raise);
+    }
+    this._boxes.set(box, lift);
+    return lift;
+  }
+
+  /** How far a box's own `vertical-align` raises it from its parent's
+   *  baseline. */
+  private _own(box: Box, parent: Box): number {
+    const va = this.styleOf(box).verticalAlign;
+    const size = this.styleOf(parent).fontSize;
+    switch (va) {
+      case 'baseline':
+      case 'top':
+      case 'bottom':
+        return 0;
+      case 'sub':
+        return -(size / 5 + size / 16);
+      case 'super':
+        return size / 3 + size / 16;
+      case 'text-top':
+        return (
+          faceExtent(this.fonts, this.styleOf(parent)).ascent -
+          strutOf(this.fonts, this.styleOf(box)).ascent
+        );
+      case 'text-bottom':
+        return (
+          strutOf(this.fonts, this.styleOf(box)).descent -
+          faceExtent(this.fonts, this.styleOf(parent)).descent
+        );
+      case 'middle': {
+        const own = strutOf(this.fonts, this.styleOf(box));
+        return (
+          xHeightOf(this.fonts, this.styleOf(parent)) / 2 -
+          (own.ascent - own.descent) / 2
+        );
+      }
+      default:
+        return typeof va === 'number'
+          ? va
+          : resolve(va, lineHeightOf(this.fonts, this.styleOf(box)));
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+const ownStyle = (box: Box): ComputedStyle => box.style;
+
+const NO_LIFT = { raise: 0, edge: null, lead: false };
+
+/**
+ * Whether an inline box's own line height sets its line otherwise than the
+ * one a paragraph's layout gives its text. That layout sets every run at
+ * the block's line height, as a multiple of the run's font's natural one;
+ * CSS gives each inline box its own, and the line box holds them all (CSS
+ * 2.1 10.8.1). So a box whose own is more makes its line taller, and a box
+ * whose own is less makes it shorter than the multiple does, where the
+ * multiple is more than the block's line height too: a larger face under
+ * a `line-height` length, which every inline box inherits as that length —
+ * `font: 11px/15px` on the body and a 14px heading run inline, which the
+ * multiple set 19px tall on a line CSS makes 16.5. One whose own is less
+ * but which the block's line height holds anyway, a `<code>` in a font
+ * with taller natural lines, is left to the one layout: its lines come out
+ * the same, and the line at a time costs a long document dear.
+ *
+ * Asked of every inline box in every paragraph, so it has to cost nothing
+ * for the ones that are nothing: a box with its block's line height, family
+ * and size is past at once, and any other answer is kept on its style.
+ */
+function ownsLeading(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  block: ComputedStyle,
+  style: ComputedStyle,
+): boolean {
+  // a bold or an italic face keeps its family's line metrics, and a
+  // paragraph is thick with <strong>, <em> and <a>
+  if (
+    style.lineHeight === block.lineHeight &&
+    style.lineHeightIsLength === block.lineHeightIsLength &&
+    style.fontSize === block.fontSize &&
+    style.fontFamily === block.fontFamily
+  ) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  const known = LEADS.get(style);
+  if (known && known.block === block && known.fonts === fonts) {
+    return known.own;
+  }
+  const multiple =
+    lineHeightMultiplier(fonts, block) * naturalLineHeight(fonts, style);
+  const height = lineHeightOf(fonts, style);
+  const own =
+    height > multiple + 0.5 ||
+    multiple > Math.max(height, lineHeightOf(fonts, block)) + 0.5;
+  LEADS.set(style, { fonts, block, own });
+  return own;
+}
+
+/** Whether a text is in an inline box that owns its leading
+ *  (`ownsLeading`), below the block it is laid out in. */
+function inBoxOwningLeading(fonts: FontsLike, block: Box, text: Box): boolean {
+  for (let at = text.parent; at && at !== block; at = at.parent) {
+    if (at.kind !== 'inline') break;
+    if (ownsLeading(fonts, block.style, at.style)) return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+const LEADS = new WeakMap<
+  ComputedStyle,
+  { fonts: FontsLike; block: ComputedStyle; own: boolean }
+>();
+
+/**
+ * Whether an inline box with no text is taller on its line than the
+ * paragraph's own line height: what it holds there, which the engine,
+ * which lays out text, gives no room (CSS 2.1 10.8). A box with text is
+ * given its face's room with the text, at the paragraph's leading, which
+ * `ownsLeading` compares its own line height with; asked of one with none,
+ * the border of an empty `<span>` in a large face was drawn over the text
+ * above its line, which was as short as the paragraph's. Not asked of a
+ * box with text, which the one-layout paths lay out whole: a padded
+ * `<code>` in a paragraph would have been laid out a line at a time.
+ */
+function tallerStrut(
+  fonts: FontsLike,
+  block: ComputedStyle,
+  box: Box,
+): boolean {
+  if (box.subtreeTextEnd > box.subtreeTextStart) return false;
+  const style = box.style;
+  if (
+    style.fontSize === block.fontSize &&
+    style.lineHeight === block.lineHeight
+  ) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  const own = strutOf(fonts, style);
+  const theirs = strutOf(fonts, block);
+  return own.ascent + own.descent > theirs.ascent + theirs.descent + 0.5;
+}
+
+/** A style's line height in pixels. */
+function lineHeightOf(fonts: FontsLike, style: ComputedStyle): number {
+  if (style.lineHeight === 'normal') return naturalLineHeight(fonts, style);
+  return style.lineHeightIsLength
+    ? (style.lineHeight as number)
+    : (style.lineHeight as number) * style.fontSize;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A style's x-height, where its font says, or half its size, as `ex` takes
+ * it (CSS 2.1 4.3.2). A face whose OS/2 table is older than version 2 —
+ * DejaVu's — states none, and the engine's answer is then NaN, which is a
+ * number: taken for one, it put an image set `middle` nowhere at all.
+ */
+function xHeightOf(fonts: FontsLike, style: ComputedStyle): number {
   try {
-    const font = fonts.match(style.fontFamily, {
-      size: style.fontSize,
-      weight: style.fontWeight,
-      style: style.fontStyle,
-    });
-    return font.metrics(style.fontSize).lineHeight;
+    const metrics = fonts
+      .match(style.fontFamily, {
+        size: style.fontSize,
+        weight: style.fontWeight,
+        style: style.fontStyle,
+      })
+      .metrics(style.fontSize) as { xHeight?: number | null };
+    const x = metrics.xHeight;
+    if (typeof x === 'number' && x > 0) return x;
   } catch {
-    return style.fontSize * 1.2;
+    // no font to ask
+  }
+  return style.fontSize / 2;
+}
+
+/** Whether a line has nothing on it yet. */
+function isEmpty(open: {
+  x: number;
+  indent: number;
+  texts: unknown[];
+  atomics: unknown[];
+}) {
+  return open.x === open.indent && !open.texts.length && !open.atomics.length;
+}
+
+/** Where a line at `y` next has more room, in the block's own space: the
+ *  nearest bottom edge of a float beside it, or null when none is. */
+function belowFloats(
+  options: InlineOptions,
+  y: number,
+  height: number,
+): number | null {
+  const edge = options.floats?.nextEdgeBelow(options.startY + y, height);
+  return edge == null ? null : Math.max(y + 1, edge - options.startY);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether a line's first word did not fit its room: the line runs past the
+ * room — a line's width leaves out the white space it ends on, which hangs,
+ * so this is the word, kept whole where `overflow-wrap` says so — or it
+ * ends inside a word — between two letters or digits, where no break is
+ * allowed, so only a line too narrow for the word put one there. Ideographs
+ * and kana break between any two, and are not counted as a word's letters.
+ */
+function tooNarrow(
+  runs: TextRun[],
+  end: number,
+  width: number,
+  room: number,
+): boolean {
+  let at = 0;
+  let before = '';
+  let after = '';
+  for (const run of runs) {
+    const text = run.text;
+    if (end > at && end <= at + text.length) before = text[end - at - 1];
+    if (end >= at && end < at + text.length) after = text[end - at];
+    at += text.length;
   }
+  if (WORD_CHAR.test(before) && WORD_CHAR.test(after)) return true;
+  return width > room + 0.5 && before !== '';
 }
 
+const WORD_CHAR =
+  /^(?![\p{Script=Han}\p{Script=Hiragana}\p{Script=Katakana}])[\p{L}\p{N}\p{M}]$/u;
+
 function bandAt(
   options: InlineOptions,
   y: number,
   height: number,
 ): { left: number; right: number } {
   if (!options.floats) return { left: 0, right: options.width };
-  const band = options.floats.bandAt(options.startY + y, height);
+  // Floats narrow the block's own line, where they reach into it; the
+  // formatting context's edges are not this block's, and a block wider than
+  // its context — a fixed width in a narrow body — keeps its lines whole.
+  const band = options.floats.bandAt(
+    options.startY + y,
+    height,
+    options.originX,
+    options.originX + options.width,
+  );
   return {
     left: Math.max(0, band.left - options.originX),
     right: Math.min(options.width, band.right - options.originX),