- From: Kevin Garcia via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 19:20:42 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Found this conversation via Jen Simmon's tweet. Here to provide a bit of context on how we approached drop caps in old-school (pre-internet) typography, and hopefully to help guide this discussion a bit from that context. ### Selector - Drop-caps (or Versals) were a property of paragraph styles, generally denoting the first paragraph in a chapter or section. - In this case, the selector wouldn't apply to just the first letter of a paragraph, but it should be a property of a span or a block level element (p, or div), and could be applied with p:first-child, p:first-of-type, p:nth-child(), etc. ### Properties Versals generally had two parameters: - Number of characters: (First (n) character(s) in a paragraph, or first (n) word(s)) in a paragraph - Character Height: How many lines did the Versal(s) take up. ### Relevant to this discussion: In this case, this seems to be a property that's being applied to the existing `::first-letter` pseudo element, which makes the "number of characters" parameter moot. In an ideal world, this would be styled as ``` p:[selector] { versal-line-span: 3; versal-char-span: 2; } ``` because this is being applied to the `::first-letter` pseudo element (or, in the future, I can imagine `::first-nth-letters(3)`), then we can simply use: ``` ::first-letter { line-span: 3; } >From the context of typography, both of these approaches make sense to me. -- GitHub Notification of comment by kgcreative Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2950#issuecomment-407866195 using your GitHub account
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