RE: :first-letter and bidi reordering interaction

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Ernest Cline wrote:
>
> You've given an extremely pathological case here thanks to
> the direction:ltr.  Without the ltr, then by the bidi rules this would
> be a rtl paragraph with a lot of ltr text embedded in it, so it would
> make sense for the initial quote and the Y, which would be at the
> right edge of the paragraph to receive the green color imparted
> by :first-letter.

Actually, without the 'ltr' it would be exactly the same, since 'ltr' is
the initial value and 'direction' is an inherited property.

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