- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:52:50 -0000
- To: "'Simon Montagu'" <smontagu@smontagu.org>, "'Martin Duerst'" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>, <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: public-i18n-core-request@w3.org > [mailto:public-i18n-core-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Simon Montagu > Sent: 24 January 2006 09:53 > To: Martin Duerst > Cc: ishida@w3.org; www-style@w3.org; public-i18n-core@w3.org > Subject: Re: I18n comment: bidirectional ordering > > > Martin Duerst wrote: > > > > At 19:53 06/01/21, ishida@w3.org wrote: > > >Note that this (presumably) applies really to Hebrew but > not Arabic, > > since >the latter script is cursive. > > > > I have a vague recollection of Arabic with letters of > different size. > > I hope somebody can confirm. > > There is nothing in principle that would disallow making the first > > letter larger (or otherwise different in style) even if the > script is > > cursive. > > 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 bidirectional ordering. I don't know if > traditional typography in these scripts includes any feature > of making the first letter different in any way. > > Actually, Martin's "otherwise different in style" seems to > open a whole new can of worms. If different scripts have a > different "native" way of accentuating the first letter, an > appropriate property would need to be added to the Text > Effects module. > > Simon Simon, Martin, I have been holding this back to get buy in at the i18n core telecon, but I have just sent out an email asking for feedback on the use of :first-letter in non-Latin scripts. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2006JanMar/0026.html It was sent to www-international, but I am also thinking of sending to other places, such as Unicore and various other contacts. I mention here, particularly, because it echoes some of these thoughts. RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/
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