Re: implementation of FIRST-LETTER - possible problem
Peter Flynn (pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie)
30 Sep 1997 12:18:32 +0100
Date: 30 Sep 1997 12:18:32 +0100
From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
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Subject: Re: implementation of FIRST-LETTER - possible problem
Martin writes:
I don't know whether this is described there, but frequently,
some two-letter combinations are dropped, the same two-letter
combinations that remain in abbreviations. For examlpe, Thomas
is usually abbreviated Th., and so both the T and the h would
be dropped.
That is a design decision.
In July I saw a manuscript in a museum in Budapest that had
each first letter painted in red instead of dropped. As far
as I can remember, that happened for each paragraph. Could
such a thing be done in CSS?
As far as I know, specifying colour for a style is trivial. If the
stylesheet has a mechanism for identifying first chars (either by
using markup or by some routine of its own) then there should be no
problem.
///Peter