- From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:14:30 -0400
- To: "Brad Kemper" <brkemper@comcast.net>
- Cc: "Simon Montagu" <smontagu@smontagu.org>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
2008/6/29 Brad Kemper <brkemper@comcast.net>: > Conceptually, neither is a number. Why would you allow a number to be a > "first letter", but not punctuation? It seems like a rather arbitrary > decision. Yes. My first year CS prof would say exactly the same thing. No matter how well we back up our arguments, it's still fundamentally an arbitrary decision either way. But I would tend to think that normal typographic practice would more likely treat a number as the same class as a letter but not punctuation. I feel "what constitutes a first-letter if the first sentence is in Arabic" (with all the letters connected together) is probably more of a problem. But I don't speak Arabic and the Arabic typographers probably already know the answer. -- cheers, -ambrose The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by idiots. So SAD... (Sites that do spam filtering on mails sent to the abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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