Should more constant properties (e.g., textAnchor) be specifiable as channels?

[Fil]

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[mbostock]

My hot take on this is “no” because you can always fall back to creating marks programmatically as needed, e.g., one Plot.text for right-aligned labels and another for left-aligned labels, with the requisite transform (or filter #138) to control who gets what. My rule of thumb is that if it’s not really a visual encoding of data, meaning if it isn’t intended to communicate information (and you wouldn’t want a corresponding legend or axis) and if there’s only a few values that it could reasonably have (e.g., label orientation) then it’s nice for simplicity for the property to be a constant.

[Fil]

Makes sense. Then we should also close #81 (there are ways to create the labels in a different way).

[mbostock]

I don’t see us taking any immediate action on this for now, so I’m going to close.