Re: Fwd: Initia-letter feedback

Hello Richard,



We are in process of consulting publishers in India. In India although publishers use some variations of Initial letter in document publishing , publishers mostly use (1) A+C and (2) C+D. Pl find the .pdf version of the document that we have earlier sent to you.(Pl see attachment)




Also , pl. send us a consolidated list of issues , which may try to iron out in discussion with the publishing community and other stake-holders and send you the integrated feedback towards incorporation in the layout document.




Looking forward to hear from you.


With regards,


Somnath

On 02/24/15 07:52 PM, Richard Ishida  <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> On 24/02/2015 09:20, Somnath Chandra wrote:
> >Pl find additional feedback on Indic First letter requirement. Looking
> >forward to hear from you.
> 
> 
> i'm still not quite clear about how Indian typographers address a situation where, in the same text, one of the initial-letters is very tall (eg. has subjoined consonants) and another is not tall.
> 
> In the three schematics below, a tall character is represented by three @ signs stacked vertically, or two = signs where the character size has been shrunk to fit. A medium height character is represented by two @s. A,B, C and D are just labels for us to talk about the schematics, and are not part of the text.
> 
> Would authors typically do A+B, or A+C or C+D? Or are there no real rules?
> 
> A (tall character)
> @ xxxxxx
> @ xxxxxx
> @ xxxxxx
> xxxxxxxx
> 
> B (medium height character)
> @ xxxxxx
> @ xxxxxx
>  xxxxxx
> xxxxxxxx
> 
> C (medium height character)
> @ xxxxxx
> @ xxxxxx
> xxxxxxxx
> xxxxxxxx
> 
> D (tall character)
> = xxxxxx
> = xxxxxx
> xxxxxxxx
> xxxxxxxx
> 
> One reason for asking is that i suspect the answer may affect whether intial-letter rules are generally set in the style sheet or have to be set individually on the element, or how the required space is worked out by the processor.
> 
> ri
> 
> 
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Dr. Somnath Chandra
Scientist-E
Dept. of Electronics & Information Technology
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
Govt. of India
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e-mail :schandra@mit.gov.in