Hello, 2004-09-12T16:18:10+03:00 Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote: >> I think this is a very specific issue for the Dutch language. > That would make the note in the current CSS specification even stranger, > since it clearly suggests more. > I wonder what people think about "ch", for example, in languages where it > is traditionally treated as a single letter in some sense, e.g. in > alphabetic order. If you specify that the first letter of each paragraph > appear in red, what would people intuitively expect to happen when a > paragraph stats with a Spanish word with "Ch" or "Ll" at its beginning. We don’t even need to go this far. Consider a case of quotation. E.g.: “To be or not to be?” I would expect the :first-letter to apply to the first two characters (or maybe even three). Existing user agents are way too simplistic for such behavior. Alexander -- Alexander Savenkov http://www.xmlhack.ru/ savenkov@xmlhack.ru http://www.xmlhack.ru/authors/croll/Received on Sunday, 12 September 2004 20:58:09 GMT
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