- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 01:14:07 -0500
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Cc: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "public-houdini@w3.org" <public-houdini@w3.org>, Bram Stein <stein@adobe.com>
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 05:39:00 +0000 Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: > > As I recall the discussion that led to this section, it was thought that > consistent drop cap sizing across paragraphs was more important than > getting the cap height alignment to match. So the height of the drop cap > does only depend on line-height and actual font metrics. Right - this is because drop cap size can be used to indicate hierarchy in a publication, and so you need the base sizes (i.e. *not* including diacriticals, superscripts, quote marks or other fleas) to match properly. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
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