- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:26:47 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> What about Devanagari and similar scripts? This is a case where the > first letter is not necessarily at the start of the line even without My impression is that Devanagari is taught to first language users as though it was a syllabic script, even though the computer codes and foreign learners may see it as more phonemic. > bidirectional ordering. I don't know if traditional typography in these > scripts includes any feature of making the first letter different in any > way. If they do, I suspect the transformation would be applied to the whole of a consonant cluster and associated vowel.
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