- From: Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:52:31 +0200
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: ishida@w3.org, www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
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
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