- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 16:00:30 -0400
- To: Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 12:16 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote: > I. WHY CSS DROP CAPS? I support this strongly. I have also been compiling some notes on this as blog postings at my revivified blog: http://barefootliam.blogspot.ca/2014/04/formatting-drop-caps-with-css.html (I wrote this before Dave or I found css inline, but it still applies) http://barefootliam.blogspot.ca/2014/05/bruce-rogers-on-drop-caps.html has some good and some bad examples, and explains them clearly. http://barefootliam.blogspot.ca/2014/05/using-images-as-initial-drop-caps.html shows the alignment points needed and I try to explain why they are needed. Drop caps are an effective way to distinguish chapter or section openings; "decorative initials" and "historiated initials" are often used to enliven them, but drop caps have a practical function. Future blog articles from me may include some non-Latin-script examples (I used a Greek example for XSL-FO but want to add Hindi, Chinese and Farsi). Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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