Re: [css3-text] 'First letter' delimitation

On 10/11/2010 06:12 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>> Knowledge about digraphs should be communicated implicitly by the
>> @lang attribute, and appropriately handled by the browser in its
>> "grapheme cluster" grouping.
>
> In theory, yes. I'm concerned that in practice there are going to be
> lots of holes in the knowledge of particular language needs in software,
> especially for minority languages. I'm thinking that it might be
> worthwhile to define a syntax by which a web author could explicitly
> delimit a 'first letter'.

I share your concern, but do we need an explicit syntax? A web author 
can always use <span> and style it the same as first-letter.